Staff Reporter :
At least 26 traffickers were held in Dhaka city, Narayanganj and Cox’s Bazar districts on Tuesday night.
They also seized 2,000 passports, two laptops and Tk one lakh in cash from their possession, cop officials said.
In the capital, a team of Rapid action Battalion (RAB) seized more than 2,000 passports and two laptops and picked up 16 people by busting the office of an illegal recruitment agency in Malibagh around 10:30pm, said RAB-3 Deputy Director Major Kamran Kabir Uddin.
The arrested people, including Md Akhter Hossain, owner of Golam Rabbi International Agency and Travels, might have suspected connection with the human trafficking, the elite force official said.
“Akhter could not produce any valid license. The license that he showed expired eight months ago. But they had not stopped sending male and female workers abroad,” he said.
He also said that the arrested persons had been handed over to the Rampura Police Station.
A case was filed in this connection, he said.
In Narayanganj, RAB-11 arrested eight persons, including two women, of a kidnapping and human trafficking gang from different areas of Narayanganj district on Tuesday, said Lieutenant Colonel Anwar Latif Khan, Commanding Officer of RAB-11.
The arrested persons are Abdul Halim from Fatullah, Ranjita and Abdul Haque from Sonargaon, Tania Akhter from Comilla, Tareque, Jasim Uddin and Salahuddin from Siddhirganj and Rana from Munshiganj, the RAB official said.
In Cox’s Bazar, Police arrested two suspected human traffickers at Chakoria upazila at night.
They are Mohammad Shafi, 48, son of Khuilla Mia from Mongdu in Myanmar, and Shahidullah Nezam, 28, son of Moktar Ahmed Kalu from Baniachhara in Chakoria. Police said Shafi is a Myanmar citizen.
Chakoria Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Provash Chandra Dhar said that they were arrested from Chakoria bus terminal area at about 11:00pm when they came to realize ransom from Abdul Shukur from Boroitali union.
The OC said that they confessed to have involved in human trafficking.
A case was filed with respective police station.
