Telecom case postponed

TWO Chinese men and a Taiwanese woman arrested in May for allegedly defrauding Telecom Namibia by illegally using the Internet Protocol (IP) system appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court for a second time last week.

According to Telecom officials, the IP system is not yet in use in Namibia. Hsiu-Mei Min, Kou-Fu Ko and Ko-Yen Yoi were told that their fraud and forgery case was to be postponed to September 18 to allow the prosecuting authorities to bring the original charge sheet to court.They are out on bail of N$70 000 each.The Namibian Police arrested the trio during a raid on two residential areas and a business in Windhoek in May.They are alleged to have used the IP illegally to make international calls, mostly to their own countries.Telecom Namibia alerted the Police after detecting a high flow of traffic on its cable system from November onwards.The resultant losses are estimated to be as high as N$1 million.NampaHsiu-Mei Min, Kou-Fu Ko and Ko-Yen Yoi were told that their fraud and forgery case was to be postponed to September 18 to allow the prosecuting authorities to bring the original charge sheet to court.They are out on bail of N$70 000 each.The Namibian Police arrested the trio during a raid on two residential areas and a business in Windhoek in May.They are alleged to have used the IP illegally to make international calls, mostly to their own countries.Telecom Namibia alerted the Police after detecting a high flow of traffic on its cable system from November onwards.The resultant losses are estimated to be as high as N$1 million.Nampa