Multi-crore ISD call racket busted,5 held

During investigation,it was revealed that the accused made calls to Congo,Sierra Leone and Somalia on some premium rate numbers without any ISD facility by tampering the computers of exchange in Roorkee. Thus,subscribers of these international numbers were getting huge payment by telephone operators without paying any money at the callers end, CBI spokesperson Harsh Bhal said,adding this led to a loss of crores to the BSNL.

International premium rate numbers of Somalia,Congo and Sierra Leone were taken by some persons in Italy and Saudi Arabia and these were passed on to Zaidi for making calls from India through his Indian contacts,the CBI said. Zaidi was also paid huge money through hawala transactions for carrying out such activities in India.