5 arrested for ‘cutting optical cables’
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FIVE men suspected of severing 21 optical cables have been arrested for disrupting public telecom facilities, the Jiading District People’s Procuratorate said yesterday.
One of the suspects, surnamed Min, was a contractor on an elevated road construction project in the district, and the other four were his colleagues, according to prosecutors.
However, the job was suspended last November because it could not move forward until the optical cables, which were buried under the planned elevated road, were relocated, the procuratorate said.
Pressured by rising costs caused by the suspension, Min and the other four suspects allegedly cut the cables last December to force the telecom company to relocate them sooner.
The prosecutors said 126 district base stations were disconnected, resulting in six office buildings, 16 residential communities and two banks — about 40,000 users — being without data communication service for several hours.
It cost more than 620,000 yuan (US$94,352) to repair the damage.
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