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Hatirjheel police have filed a case against Grameenphone for smuggling information from servers to scammers. In addition to Grameenphone Limited, two others, including a customer service worker, have been charged in the case.
Hatirjheel Police Inspector Mohammad Golam Azam presented the case on Tuesday (December 15). Case No. 24 of the Hatirjheel Police Station. The defendants in the case brought under the Telecommunications Regulation Act are Grameenphone Limited, Rubel Mahmud Anik and Parveen Akhter.
The Deputy Commissioner of the DMP Tejgaon division, Mohammad Harun Aur Rashid, confirmed this information to the Bangla Tribune.
He said: “Rubel Mahmud Anik, who works at the Grameenphone Customer Service Center, has provided confidential information used in customer SIM registration to an organized blackmail network in exchange for money. With this information, this cycle has blackmailed countless people and cheated millions of rupees.
The main weapon of the blackmail cycle to catch the target person is the confidential information of the target person used in the Grameenphone SIM record. It also said that Grameenphone has failed to ensure the protection of its customers’ personal information.
Lack of privacy protection for customers’ personal information, indifference and mismanagement of illegal access to databases have led to money laundering. Police officer Harun Aur Rashid also said that Grameenphone could not avoid this responsibility.
It is alleged in the case that the defendant Rubel Mahmud Anik, who worked at the Grameenphone Service Center, took advantage of the mismanagement of the Grameenphone authorities and provided personal information about the SIM registration to customers according to his demand. Using that information, Parveen Akhter, in collusion with other defendants at the Nupur Chakra, blackmailed several people and embezzled thousands of rupees.
Earlier last week, Dhaka’s Hatirjheel police arrested four members of a gang involved in stealing customer information from a server and blackmailing them with the help of an employee working at the Grameenphone service center in Tejgaon. The group was led by a woman named Parveen Akhter Nupur.
At Hatirjheel Police Station, a case was filed against them under the Information Technology Act. The case is being investigated.
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