The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested four persons, suspected to be members of a credit card forgery gang, from different metropolitan cities across the country.
Among the arrested is a postal service employee.
The four were nabbed in separate operations conducted at different parts of Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal cities on Friday night, according to a release issued by the DMP's media and community service.
The arrestees were identified as Kamal Ahmed (alias Khokon,alias Dada Bhai), 52, leader of the gang; Abdur Rob, 42; Mohammad Russell, 34; and Anwar Hossain, 32.
Abdur Rob is a postman with Gulshan post office in Dhaka, the police said.
The police found their involvement in forgery while investigating a complaint filed by Swedish citizen Brunhild Descamps, the country director of Hemtex, a foreign firm.
According to the complaint, Descamps was sent a Euro credit card from Sweden through postal service earlier this year, though he never received it. He complained that he checked in Sweden and was confirmed that the card was sent to Bangladesh, and that it was also used between May 26 and July 7.
The company official was also sent Euro cards twice, but it did not reach him on each occasion.
According to the DB police release, gang leader Kamal Ahmed has admitted that Abdur Rob helped him get the credit card, and that he has so far forged 1,500 credit cards.
Explaining his modus operandi, Rob told the police that before making a delivery, he scrutinised letters, parcels and documents with a needle to check whether there was any credit card inside. He sold the cards he thus found to the gang for anything between Tk 5,000 and Tk 10,000 per card.
Among the arrested is a postal service employee.
The four were nabbed in separate operations conducted at different parts of Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal cities on Friday night, according to a release issued by the DMP's media and community service.
The arrestees were identified as Kamal Ahmed (alias Khokon,alias Dada Bhai), 52, leader of the gang; Abdur Rob, 42; Mohammad Russell, 34; and Anwar Hossain, 32.
Abdur Rob is a postman with Gulshan post office in Dhaka, the police said.
The police found their involvement in forgery while investigating a complaint filed by Swedish citizen Brunhild Descamps, the country director of Hemtex, a foreign firm.
According to the complaint, Descamps was sent a Euro credit card from Sweden through postal service earlier this year, though he never received it. He complained that he checked in Sweden and was confirmed that the card was sent to Bangladesh, and that it was also used between May 26 and July 7.
The company official was also sent Euro cards twice, but it did not reach him on each occasion.
According to the DB police release, gang leader Kamal Ahmed has admitted that Abdur Rob helped him get the credit card, and that he has so far forged 1,500 credit cards.
Explaining his modus operandi, Rob told the police that before making a delivery, he scrutinised letters, parcels and documents with a needle to check whether there was any credit card inside. He sold the cards he thus found to the gang for anything between Tk 5,000 and Tk 10,000 per card.
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