India, Feb. 17 -- A 30-year-old woman from Nagaland was arrested for allegedly operating an illegal virtual telephone exchange using a SIM box to convert international internet calls of Chinese cyber gangs into domestic calls to target victims, police said on Monday.

The suspect, identified as Kung Panmae of Dimapur, was living with her husband in a rented accommodation in Sector-28. Police said seven phones, including three broken ones, a modem, three SIM cards and a broken laptop were recovered during a raid on February 10. She was formally arrested the next day and produced before a court for police remand for detailed interrogation.Earlier, older version of the illegal telephone exchange technology was used by gangs that facilitated ...