Detective Branch of police arrested three members of an organised fraud gang in separate raids at Mirpur and Pallabi in Dhaka and Gachha area of Gazipur for their suspected links to extortion of money from people identifying them as senior government officials and top criminals.
The arrested are Abdul Mannan Dulal alias Jahangir, 55, Md Nasim Hasan Lavlu, 44, and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet, 54.
Deputy commissioner of DB Muhammad Talebur Rahman confirmed media of their arrest.
On receiving information that an organised fraud ring has been threatening and deceiving the common people by impersonating senior government officials and top criminal Shahadat on mobile phones for a long time and extorting cash through bKash and Nagad, a team of DB Motijheel division conducted a raid in Mirpur Madhya Paikpara area and arrested Abdul Mannan Dulal on July 1.
Later, according to the information given by Jahangir, Md Nasim Hasan Lavlu of the same gang was arrested at Pallabi and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet at Gachha.
Two laptops, a tab, 52 mobile phone sets, 190 SIM cards, eight seals of various important government and private individuals, 20 directories with photos and names, five fake ID cards and cash of Tk 20,000 were seized from their possessions.
