Staff Reporter :
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday arrested two financiers of Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Motijheel and Mohakhali areas.
The RAB officials also recovered a sum of Tk 27.7 lakh, a pistol and some knives from them.
They were identified as Hasibul Hasan, 48, and Nasir Ahmed Noyon, 28.
Director General of RAB Benazir Ahmed disclosed the information at a press briefing in Dhaka on Friday.
Benazir Ahmed said, Hasib is an engineer of Rajshahi Public Works Department, Benazir said. His hometown is in Gopalganj and Nasir’s is Boaliya in Rajshahi.
Both men were Hundi traders, and the money was intended for financing of Neo JMB, he said.
The Neo-JMB financiers are also close accomplices of Abdur Rahman, Chief of the Neo-JMB, who died after falling from the fourth floor of a building in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital during a raid recently.
He said, Rahman had used the alias Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif while forming Neo-JMB.
Benazir showed a copy of a Neo-JMB announcement to prove his claim at the press briefing.
The announcement was signed by Hanif and one Sheikh Abu Dujuna, he said.
According to the RAB Chief, Dujuna is Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, who has so far been identified as the Chief Coordinator of Neo-JMB, the group blamed for the July 1 terror attack on a cafe in Dhaka’s Gulshan.
Tamim, the suspected mastermind of the deadly attack on the premises of Holey Artisan Bakery and O’ Kitchen in Gulshan, was killed during a raid in Narayanganj in August.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday arrested two financiers of Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Motijheel and Mohakhali areas.
The RAB officials also recovered a sum of Tk 27.7 lakh, a pistol and some knives from them.
They were identified as Hasibul Hasan, 48, and Nasir Ahmed Noyon, 28.
Director General of RAB Benazir Ahmed disclosed the information at a press briefing in Dhaka on Friday.
Benazir Ahmed said, Hasib is an engineer of Rajshahi Public Works Department, Benazir said. His hometown is in Gopalganj and Nasir’s is Boaliya in Rajshahi.
Both men were Hundi traders, and the money was intended for financing of Neo JMB, he said.
The Neo-JMB financiers are also close accomplices of Abdur Rahman, Chief of the Neo-JMB, who died after falling from the fourth floor of a building in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital during a raid recently.
He said, Rahman had used the alias Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif while forming Neo-JMB.
Benazir showed a copy of a Neo-JMB announcement to prove his claim at the press briefing.
The announcement was signed by Hanif and one Sheikh Abu Dujuna, he said.
According to the RAB Chief, Dujuna is Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, who has so far been identified as the Chief Coordinator of Neo-JMB, the group blamed for the July 1 terror attack on a cafe in Dhaka’s Gulshan.
Tamim, the suspected mastermind of the deadly attack on the premises of Holey Artisan Bakery and O’ Kitchen in Gulshan, was killed during a raid in Narayanganj in August.
