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US Owned Yemeni VOIP Provider Charged with Smuggling International Phone Calls

Filed under: A-INFRASTRUCTURE, Communications, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 8:44 am on Wednesday, September 30, 2009

oh well thats handy…

Yemen Post

The Supreme National Anti-Corruption Commission has turned over to the Attorney General a fraud case involving millions of dollars through voice over the internet protocol VoIP.

In a press release, the commission said corruption suspects were arrested ahead of filing a lawsuit against them by the Public Funds Court.

The SNAAC has completed investigations into the case by the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology involving two companies, one owned by a US citizen from Arab descent specialized in improving voice over the internet protocol, the statement said.

The investigations revealed the two companies were implicated in the fraud along with executives at the ministry, the TeleYemen Company, and representatives from outside of the two bodies claiming they were delegates of one of the companies.

The fraud is about offering and receiving bribes, using influence, money laundering, forging official document, tax avoidance, and making it easy for one of the two companies to exploit the public funds through price difference and preventing over $ 40 million from reaching the state safe.

It is also about smuggling international telephone calls.

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3/10/2010 @ 6:37 am

[...] didn’t realize Skype was illegal in Yemen. Previous reporting: 9/30/09, US owned VIOP smuggling phone calls. Arabic, SABA. The YObserver heavily redacted their original [...]

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