Overview
- Police raided stalls in the Albarracín commercial center in Trujillo and found more than 100 phones hidden for resale.
- Agents also seized SIM cards and biometric fingerprint readers that could be used to enroll fingerprints into databases.
- Three people from the Trujillo operation were detained and taken to specialized investigators in Trujillo to explain the origin of the devices.
- Osiptel, the telecom regulator, supported the enforcement by checking device IMEIs to identify phones reported as stolen.
- In a separate Tacna gallery sweep, police arrested two men with multiple devices after Osiptel records showed some phones were listed as stolen.