Cyber Police Center (CPC) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested eight members including the alleged mastermind of an organised gang accused of operating online gambling sites and laundering crores of taka abroad.

The arrestees are Md Ashraf Uddin Ahmed, 32, Sajeeb Chakraborty, 29, Md Ashraful Islam, 40, Md Jasim Uddin, 36, Taiyeb Khan, 26, Soumik Saha, 28, Md Kamruzzaman, 36, and Abdur Rahman, 47.

CID Special Police Superintendent (Media and Public Relations) Jasim Uddin Khan said the group had been operating several international and local online gambling platforms for a long time.

Gamblers used mobile financial services such as bKash, Rocket and Nagad, along with bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets, to place transactions on the platforms.

Investigators said the illegally earned money was later smuggled abroad through cryptocurrency and digital hundi networks.

During preliminary interrogation, the accused reportedly admitted that they had been illegally handling around Tk 1.8 crore to Tk 2 crore daily over the past six months by attracting people to online gambling platforms and a large portion of the money was transferred abroad.

The CID said its Cyber Monitoring Cell detected the activities during routine online surveillance and found that several groups were illegally operating online gambling sites in Bangladesh.

In this connection, a case was filed with Paltan Model Police Station under the relevant sections of the Cyber Security Ordinance, 2025.