Cyber Police Centre (CPC) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the mastermind of a fraudster gang from the city's Mirpur area early Thursday on charge of embezzling about Tk 2.31 crore by alluring a man to get a dollar-laden luggage.
Based on secret information, a team of the Cyber Police Centre carried out a raid at Paikpara area of Mirpur early Thursday and arrested alleged mastermind of fraudster Sohail Ahmed Apu,28.
The son of Abdul Mannan, Apu has been residing at house no. 31/24/A, Topten Hawk plaza of Pikepara in Mirpur.
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Sources at the Cyber Police Centre of the CID, a specialised police unit, said one Reza (40) was introduced to a member of the fraudster gang through Facebook. At one stage, a member of the fraudulent syndicate introduced himself as an official of Florida City Bank and said that a client of the Bank had a deposit of 6 million dollars. The client died in Haiti on 12 January in 2010 and he has no heirs.
The fraudster then allured Suman Al Reza to become the bank client's heir and offered to share the deposited money equally between the two after withdrawing the money. Later, the fraudster demanded Tk9,70,000 from Reza for shipping charges of dollar sending through a courier service. After paying that amount, the fraudster also demanded $55,000 (Tk. 61,65,000) as federal taxes. Allured for dollar-laden luggage, Sumon Al Reza then deposited the amount as Bangladesh Federal Tax to the Dutch Bangla Bank Mirpur-10 branch, Dhaka, account of Golden Logistics Enterprise.
As Suman Al Reza did not receive the parcel as per the conditions, he realised that he was a victim of fraud and he filed a case with Uttara West Police Case 17 December last year in this connection.
After getting charge of the investigation of the case, a team of Cyber Police Centre conducted an operation on the basis of the information collected from the bank account and arrested Md Akash (23)from Chanpara Rehabilitation Centre Slum No. 8 of Rupganj police station in Narayanganj District on January 25 this year.
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According to the statement of Akash, another member of the fraud gang identified as Ibrahim (30), was arrested on the same day from Kalyanpur Porabasti in Dhaka city.
When the arrested accused were sent to jail, Apu's name emerged as the mastermind of the cheating ring as per their confession. In view of this, he was arrested early Thursday.
According to the preliminary investigation, the gang has embezzled about Tk 2,30,18,326 from various victims using various bank accounts.