RAB has arrested five members of the gang, including Shahidul Islam alias Mithu, one of the ringleaders involved in illegal kidney trading on social media Facebook. The other four detained are Mizanur Rahman (44), Al Mamun Mehdi (27), Md. Simon (28) and Md. Russell Hossain (24).
It is reported that there are 15-20 members of this kidney trading circle on social media. RAB arrested 5 people from Bhatara, Banshree and Mirpur of the capital after carrying out an operation from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning to catch them. Affidavit copies of contracts with various victims, a total of 14 passports including the victims’ passports, various documents of kidney cross-matching, domestic and foreign currencies, national identity cards and photocopies of various individuals, check books and ATM cards of various banks, seals of various government and private departments, empty Stamps, CPUs, mobile phones and SIM cards were seized.
A press conference was held in this regard at RAB Media Center in Karwan Bazar of the capital in the afternoon.