The SIM cards were used in China to hack accounts of Indian people and also commit numerous financial frauds. Han was trying to enter the Indian territory after he failed to get an Indian Visa.
Chinese man caught at India-Bangladesh border carried 1,300 Indian SIM cards to China: BSF
Chinese man caught at India-Bangladesh border carried 1,300 Indian SIM cards to China: BSF
The Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended a 36-year-old Chinese man near the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday and confiscated 1,300 Indian SIM cards from him.
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UPDATED: June 11, 2021 23:12 IST
The Chinese national, Han Junwe, was nabbed by a BSF patrol party from the Malda district of West Bengal on Thursday (Photo: Kamaljit Sandhu)
The Chinese national apprehended while trying to cross the India-Bangladesh border illegally told the investigators that he and his associates have smuggled as many as 1,300 Indian SIM cards into their country by hiding them in undergarments, the Border Security Force (BSF) said on Friday.
A 35-year-old Chinese national, who was held by India's Border Security Force (BSF) near the border with Bangladesh in West Bengal's Malda district for illegal entry on June 10, has claimed he runs a hotel in a posh locality of Gurugram a satellite city of Delhi along with an Indian partner, police sources said.