Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested two members of a fraudulence syndicate from two different places of the country on Tuesday.
Talking to the Bangladesh Post, Md Abu Yousuf, Additional Superintend of PBI, the specialized investigation unit of Bangladesh Police, confirmed it on Wednesday.
The arrested were identified as Zahirul Islam Ripon and Md Abu Yamin alias Ashiqur Rahman.
Ripon was detained from Nawbabganj area while Yamin was nabbed from Mirpur in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday.
The arrested criminals had embezzled more than Tk 3 crore in the name of sending the victims to developed countries including Europe and Australia.
They opened a fake travel agency office named Al Arafat Travel and Tour. After taking money from the victims, they shut down their well decorated office overnight.
The frauds used their office address located in Unicorn Plaza in city’s posh area Gulshan. But PBI did not find any such office in the multi-storied commercial building, said Additional SP Yusuf.
Some of the gang members were introducing themselves as senior government officials. They used luxurious cars to convince the victims for giving them money to get visa for entering the European countries.
This fraud network also took money in the name of providing government jobs.
PBI officials said the gang members commit the cheating in a combined and coordinated way. Some members used to collect clients, who desperately sought visa for entering Europe while some other looked for government jobs.
Some other take interviews of the victims.
Addl SP Yusuf said, “We are conducting drives to arrest the absconding members of the gang”.
