WILLEMSTAD--An investigation is currently taking place at United Telecommunication Services (UTS) into a large-scale fraud involving post-paid mobile phones.
Curacao's Amigoe newspaper cites sources within the government-owned company indicating that the case has grown to one involving some two million guilders. In response UTS - in which St. Maarten also has a minority share - reportedly sharpened considerably its conditions to get a post paid cell phone subscription.
Apparently the SIM cards were removed from these phones after purchase and sent abroad, mostly to Colombia. They would then be used to make calls for free for quite some time before UTS closed the numbers.
The company is said to be still investigating the matter, but also informed local authorities of the alleged scam said to have occurred last year. No comment from management was available, but the message was relayed that conditions for post-paid service and accompanying phones have been sharpened.
Source: http://www.thedailyherald.com/islands/1-islands-news/24553-naf-2-million-fraud-at-uts-.html
London Neal Ardley Motherwell Luis Moreno-Ocampo Sir Alex Ferguson Eric Pickles
No comments:
Post a Comment