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Sometimes they would call and pretend to be high-ranking government officials or top terrorists to extort money.
An organized fraud ring was extorting money through mobile banking by impersonating top terrorists and using intimidation. The Intelligence Department (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested three members involved in this ring. They were arrested in a drive in Dhaka and Gazipur on Tuesday.
Sometimes they would call and pretend to be high-ranking government officials or top terrorists to extort money.
The arrested persons are Md. Abdul Mannan Dulal alias Jahangir (55), Md. Nasim Hasan alias Lavlu (44) and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet (54).
This information was given in a press release by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday. The release said that based on secret information, it has been learned that an organized fraud ring has been extorting money through mobile banking by impersonating senior government officials, top terrorist Shahadat and various terrorists on mobile phones for a long time.
Based on intelligence information, a team of DB Motijheel division conducted a raid in the central Paikpara area of Mirpur in the capital on Tuesday, July 1 and arrested Mannan. Based on the information provided by him, members of the same gang, Nasim Hasan, were arrested from the Pallabi area of the capital and Ilias Sikder from the Gacha area of Gazipur. At that time, 2 laptops, 1 tab, 52 mobile phones, 190 SIM cards, 8 seals with the names of various important government and private figures, 5 fake identity cards and 20,000 taka in cash were recovered from them.
An organized fraud ring was extorting money through mobile banking by impersonating top terrorists and using intimidation. The Intelligence Department (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested three members involved in this ring. They were arrested in a drive in Dhaka and Gazipur on Tuesday.
The arrested persons are Md. Abdul Mannan Dulal alias Jahangir (55), Md. Nasim Hasan alias Lavlu (44) and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet (54).
This information was given in a press release by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday. The release said that based on secret information, it has been learned that an organized fraud ring has been extorting money through mobile banking by impersonating senior government officials, top terrorist Shahadat and various terrorists on mobile phones for a long time.
Based on intelligence information, a team of DB Motijheel division conducted a raid in the central Paikpara area of Mirpur in the capital on Tuesday, July 1 and arrested Mannan. Based on the information provided by him, members of the same gang, Nasim Hasan, were arrested from the Pallabi area of the capital and Ilias Sikder from the Gacha area of Gazipur. At that time, 2 laptops, 1 tab, 52 mobile phones, 190 SIM cards, 8 seals with the names of various important government and private figures, 5 fake identity cards and 20,000 taka in cash were recovered from them.
