The Police administration has arrested five people in Faridpur on suspicion of being members of bKash fraud gang. The arrested persons are: Md. Ibrahim Akon (32), Md. Faizul Matubbar (27), Shahinur Matubbar alias Kalu Matubbar (40), Md. Anik Sikder (24) and Litu Matubbar alias Badr (41) of Karnikanda village of Azimnagar Union in Bhanga Upazila.
The arrested persons impersonated them as bKash-Nagad officers and threatened to close the accounts by stealing PIN numbers and embezzling money.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration and Crime) Mohammad Imdad Hussain read out the written statement at the press conference held at the office of the Superintendent of Police at around 11 o’clock on Saturday (May 6). He said, on Friday (May 5) from 9:15 to 11:00 PM, The detective police arrested them from the backyard of Ibrahim Akan’s house of Karnikanda village of Azimnagar Union under Bhanga Upazila of Faridpur. Six mobile phones and 18 SIMs were seized from them.
The press conference was attended by Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime and Investigation) Sheikh Md. Abdullah Bin Kalam, Additional Superintendent of Police (Sadar Circle) Suman Ranjan Sarkar, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Nagarkanda Circle) Md. Asaduzzaman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Nagarakanda Police Station Md. Miraj Hossain, District Intelligence Police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Rakibul Islam, Intelligence Police Banga Zone Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Mamunur Rashid and others.
It is said in the written statement that they were arrested by the detective police on the basis of secret information. In the interrogation after the arrest, they said that their members, in various ways, introduced themselves as bKash and Nagad office employees from various places through phone calls. Then they used to collect secret pin codes of customers and embezzle government fixed pension, educational support stipend money, bonus money through offers in bKash and Nagad on the occasion of Eid.
In the press conference, it was informed that the names and identities of eight more members involved in this fraudulent circle have been found. An operation is underway to arrest them.
