KANPUR: Kanpur police early on Friday busted an illegal telephone exchange where the accused offered telecommunication link to callers at cost lower than charged by government approved centres.Police said the exchange racket caused huge monetary losses to the government.SSP Akhilesh Kumar said, "Acting on a tip off provided by the intelligence wing, the SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team and city police busted an illegal VoIP (voice over internet protocol) exchange where international VoIP calls were routed through local mobile numbers. The gang used to convert a VoIP call from abroad into a voice call illegally and transferring it to receivers in India through illegal international gateway."Three persons: Shahnawaz, Sarfaraz and Nayab have been arrested and raids are on to nab others.The SSP said, "The raid was conducted at around 2am. at Chunnan building in Bagahi area of Babupurwa and police arrested three persons from the spot. We also recovered three VoIP exchange machines, 238 SIMs, one router with adopter and a CP devicefrom the spot. The cost of one VoIP exchange machine is Rs 1 lakh. The VoIP machine converts a Rs 10-15 call into 60-70 paise. Latest gadgets did not reveal the caller's ID and eased the entire operations."The accused was running this illegal telephone exchange for more than six months. An FIR was later registered in the case.

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