, Jan. 8 -- Police have uncovered an illegal iPhone assembly factory operated by some Chinese nationals and arrested three of them from separate areas in the capital.

Detective Branch Mirpur Division Deputy Commissioner Mahiuddin Mahmud Sohel disclosed the information on at a press briefing at the DMP media centre on Thursday.

A total of 363 iPhone sets of various models along with iPhone parts and different mobile phone manufacturing machinery were recovered during the operation.

He said tipped off, DB police conducted simultaneous raids on January 7 in Uttara Sector-17 and Nikunja-1 separately.

During the raids, one Chinese national was arrested from Uttara along with 58 mobile phones sets while two other Chinese nationals were arre...