2 Chinese nationals held in pre-activated SIM sale case

Two Chinese nationals were arrested on Sunday in connection with the pre-activated SIM card sale case in which the sleuths of the Anti-Terrorist Squad had nabbed 14 persons recently.

The accused were identified as Xu Xunfu aka July and his woman partner in crime, Li Teng Li aka Alice.

The police are interrogating them.

On January 17, the ATS had arrested 14 persons, nine of them from different districts of Uttar Pradesh and five from Noida for selling pre-activated SIM cards for opening bank accounts.

The arrest of the 14 accused came during investigation of a case in which unidentified persons had used pre-activated SIMs to open bank accounts online in different banks using fake names and submitting fake identity proofs at the time submitting their online applications.