Halotel explains claims on economic sabotage case
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Managing director, Le Van Dai, told journalists on Thursday that Halotel was charged on two out of the seven counts merely because its Sim cards were used by a fictitious company, UNEX, to illegally terminate international traffic through an unlicensed gateway, occasioning a loss of Sh459 million to Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA).
Dar es Salaam. Halotel Tanzania has said its involvement in the recent economic sabotage case was no intentional but merely a result of selling Subscriber Identification Module (Sim) cards to a fictitious company.
Managing director, Le Van Dai, told journalists on Thursday that Halotel was charged on two out of the seven counts merely because its Sim cards were used by a fictitious company, UNEX, to illegally terminate international traffic through an unlicensed gateway, occasioning a loss of Sh459 million to Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA).
Last week, a court in Dar es Salaam found Halotel guilty of two offences.
They include that of selling 1000 Sim cards to UNEX Company Limited without conducting due verification of the information provided by the fabricated firm and that of failing to discharge its (Halotel’s) duties in a reasonable manner.
The fabricated company, owned mostly by Pakistani nationals and a Sri Lankan, used the 1000 Sim cards they bought from Halotel to illegally terminate international traffic through an unlicensed gateway.
