Staff Reporter :
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed to have arrested 15 persons from the city’s different areas on Wednesday night on charge of trafficking people abroad and holding them hostage to collect ransom from their relatives at home.
They also seized huge number of passports, copies of visas and money in cash from them.
The elite force members meanwhile rescued 10 persons when they were being sent to Malaysia illegally on Wednesday, RAB official said.
“RAB-3 officials conducted the raid in the city’s airport area and rescued 10 persons when they were being sent to Malaysia illegally. Based upon their confessional statement, they moved to the city’s Motijheel, Banani and several other parts of the city and arrested them,” RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan told the reporters in a press briefing at the RAB Media Center in Kawranbazar on Thursday afternoon.
RAB-3 Commanding Officer Golam Sarwar said, “About 14 of those arrested used to transport people to Libya while the other one sent to Malaysia.
They used to hold them hostage by their agents in those countries and then blackmailed their relatives at home for ransom,” the CO said.
Two cases were filed against them and one of their victims had been brought back from Libya.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed to have arrested 15 persons from the city’s different areas on Wednesday night on charge of trafficking people abroad and holding them hostage to collect ransom from their relatives at home.
They also seized huge number of passports, copies of visas and money in cash from them.
The elite force members meanwhile rescued 10 persons when they were being sent to Malaysia illegally on Wednesday, RAB official said.
“RAB-3 officials conducted the raid in the city’s airport area and rescued 10 persons when they were being sent to Malaysia illegally. Based upon their confessional statement, they moved to the city’s Motijheel, Banani and several other parts of the city and arrested them,” RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan told the reporters in a press briefing at the RAB Media Center in Kawranbazar on Thursday afternoon.
RAB-3 Commanding Officer Golam Sarwar said, “About 14 of those arrested used to transport people to Libya while the other one sent to Malaysia.
They used to hold them hostage by their agents in those countries and then blackmailed their relatives at home for ransom,” the CO said.
Two cases were filed against them and one of their victims had been brought back from Libya.
