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News 02 Feb 2025 1 min read

Tangier: Arrest of three Chinese for cybercrime and call hacking

Tangier: Arrest of three Chinese for cybercrime and call hacking
Elements of the Tangier Prefecture of Police arrested, on Saturday, three Chinese citizens for their alleged involvement in a case related to compromising automated digital data processing systems and hacking telephone calls, a security source learned.
Tangier: Arrest of three Chinese for cybercrime and call hacking
The three suspects were arrested in the rural area of Gzenaya, near Tangier, in the act of hacking national telecommunications networks, through the use of electronic equipment to divert international telephone calls to the local network and generate revenue through tariff differentiation, the same source indicated.

Searches carried out inside a house occupied by the suspects led to the seizure of a set of desktop and laptop computers, a significant number of SIM cards, as well as electronic and computer equipment used in these criminal activities.

The suspects were placed at the disposal of the judicial investigation conducted under the supervision of the competent Public Prosecutor's Office, in order to shed light on all the circumstances surrounding this case and define all the criminal acts of which they are accused.

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