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Rabat – Based on information from a security source, members of the National Security under the Marrakech police prefecture detained an individual on Monday suspected of pirating phone calls and hacking automated digital data processing systems.
The 27-year-old suspect is accused of using a computer application and an electrical device to reroute international calls to the local network, the same source added, noting that the operation enabled him to generate revenue through rate differentiation.
A national telecoms operator’s report prompted searches and investigations that resulted in the suspect’s identification and capture in Marrakech.
Additional searches related to this case resulted in the confiscation of a SIM card and the cell phone that was most likely used to carry out the previously mentioned crimes.
In order to gather further information about the crime, as well as to identify and detain any accomplices, the suspect was taken into police custody and placed under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office.
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Similar crimes were reported in February of last year in Kenitra, when a 26-year-old man was detained by the Prefectural Judicial Police on suspicion of violating automated data processing systems and hacking international phone conversations.
According to preliminary investigation data, the suspect was also generating financial income by diverting international telephone calls to the local network before his identification and apprehension through searches and investigations.
Searches at the suspect’s residence found computer media used in this illicit activity, a laptop computer, 65 electronic devices for receiving and transferring Internet traffic, and twelve national SIM cards.
