Staff Reporter :
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) detained 11 members of a mobile banking fraud gang.
However, the disclosure of the detention was made in a press briefing at CID Headquarters in the capital on Monday.
Additional Deputy Inspector General Md Shah Alam said, “Of the detained persons, five are staff of Grameenphone (GP) customer care centres.
The five GP staff are Shymol Baroi, Kaful Gayen, Sajiullah Dastagir, Murad Hasan and Imran Hossain alias Miraj. They are attached to the GP customer care centres at Kotalipara of Gopalganj, Faridpur’s Nagarkanda and Sadar upazila centres, and Jamuna Future Park centre in Dhaka.
“In collaboration with the GP customer care centre staff, the gang members replace SIM cards of subscribers and withdraw money from their bKash or DBBL mobile banking accounts,” the CID official said. The CID officer also informed that six of the detainees are placed on remand. Earlier, a case was filed with Motijheel Police Station in this connection on February 13.
