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Your China-made smartphone may have microprocessor from Indian scrapyard, say UP Police
FirstpostCops fear spare parts that were being salvaged and sent back to China also included memory chips through which the Chinese were stealing personal data of Indians from their scrapped phones GB Nagar: The eleven Chinese nationals, who have been arrested in connection with what could be a spy ring running out of UP’s Noida, were running a smartphone scrap factory where they apparently salvaged the motherboard and microprocessor, and sent it back to China via Hong Kong for again being used in new smartphones to be shipped off to the world and India. Ravi allegedly exported these mobile spare parts back to China via Hong Kong, evading stamp duty, cops said. Further, the cops fear spare parts that were being salvaged and sent back to China also included memory chips through which the Chinese were stealing personal data of Indians from their scrapped phones. Must Read: How 7 Chinese illegals ran anti-India ops from UP’s Noida: Online fraud, illegal smartphone scrap shop to extract data… Cops said that the fake call-centre was also operated initially from Ravi’s illegal factory in which allegedly two accomplices Nikhil and Hemant helped him.
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