Two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in Nepal on charges of conducting illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol operation.
The duo were arrested from Kathmandu by Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau yesterday as they were conducting the VOIP or call bypass operation causing losses worth millions of rupees to Nepal Telecom, police said.
VOIP is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over the Internet.
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They had been operating the VOIP from a rented accommodation in Pokhara Municipality, a tourist hub in western Nepal.
Police also seized 378 SIM cards, two gateways with 32 ports each, four laptops, 26 Internet modems from their place.
In a separate incident in Pokhara, police seized four VOIP devices containing eight ports each, 80 SIM cards, a laptop and other utilities from a house.
