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Through Supreme Decree No. 014-2024-IN, subscribers and sellers will be identified in order to strengthen the fight against extortion, kidnapping, contract killings and other high-impact crimes.The Ministry of the Interior, in joint work with the Private Investment Supervisory Agency in Telecommunications (Osiptel), the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec), the National Superintendence of Migration and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the actions to strengthen citizen security, will begin a process of data validation of the holders of more than 42 million active mobile telephone lines, authorized by Supreme Decree No. 014-2024-IN, published this Thursday in the bulletin of Legal Norms of the newspaper El Peruano.
According to the norm, this action will allow the full identification of Peruvian and foreign citizens who contract the public telecommunications service. Likewise, for the first time, the identity of the seller or natural person who directly intervenes in the contracting of mobile telephone lines will also be validated.
With the implementation of this supreme decree, the strengthening of the National Registry of Mobile Terminal Equipment for Security (Renteseg) is reaffirmed, which is aimed at preventing and combating the illegal trade of cell phones, joining the effort made by the National Police of Peru (PNP) to confront this crime.
Fight against extortion and other crimes
Within the framework of the frontal fight against organized crime and common crime undertaken by the Interior sector, the norm will discourage criminals from accessing mobile telephone lines to commit crimes such as extortion, kidnapping, contract killing, among others, taking into account that they will be fully identified.
Likewise, the supreme decree seeks to combat the commercialization of stolen cell phones, as well as the sale of chips in unauthorized places, since the lines they use to operate will be suspended by the competent authorities.
It should be noted that altered, invalid, duplicated and cloned cell phones cannot access the national mobile network for operation, since they are identified daily and blocked by Renteseg.
Finally, the rule will allow for the strengthening of police intelligence and investigation work against criminal organizations and gangs that use mobile telephone lines to commit various crimes.
It will strengthen the work of Osiptel
The rule will also strengthen the work carried out by OSIPTEL, as administrator of Renteseg, since people who want to acquire one or more mobile telephone lines must be fully identified. Those people who provide false or incomplete data will be identified by the comparison that will be made with the competent entities and said lines will be deactivated.
According to the entity, one of the main problems detected so far is that the register of subscribers included lines with names and surnames consisting only of consonants, non-alphabetic characters or phrases of any kind, including rude words, which made it impossible to identify the author of any crime committed from these mobile lines. With the implementation of the supreme decree, this problem will end.
