One convicted in international calls cheating case

A local court today convicted a person in an international calls cheating case and sentenced him to four years rigorous imprisonment.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate S Ravi also imposed a fine of Rs 51,000 on him.
CBI in its investigation based on an allegation established that S Murali, as Director of M/s Tele Data Networking Serviced (P) Ltd, conspired and cheated the government by illegally switching over incoming international calls as local calls and thereby causing wrongful loss.
Investigation further revealed that the accused obtained incoming international call lines from BSNL (then known as Department of Telecommunications) from Mambalam Exchange by misrepresenting that the lines would be used for business purpose and installed a system using sophisticated equipments.

The accused had further used those lines with which all incoming international calls illegally routed through this set up were treated as local calls by Mambalam Exchange.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of CBI had registered the case based on an allegation made to the agency.