Staff Reporter :
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in separate drives detained three members of an international human trafficking group from the capital on Thursday night.
The detained persons have been identified as Al Azad, 27, Firoz Ahmed, 28, and Krishna Gopal Dey, 38. They are active members of an international human trafficking gang.
They also recovered about Tk 15 lakh in cash, several mobile phone sets and some fake application forms seeking refugee status in different countries.
Abdullah Hel Baki, Special Superintendent of Police (CID), said this in a press briefing in the capital on Friday morning.
He said that, Azad had been detained from Banani DOHS area, Firoz from Uttara and Krishna from Tanti Bazar area in a night-long drive on Thursday.
He said, “An Australian citizen named John arrived in Bangladesh five months ago. He posted an advertisement in Bikroy.com about his chain shops. He lured people with the fake promise of recruiting them. The man took three fortune seekers to Indonesia with the promise of giving them job in Australia and detained them there. Later, he released them after talking ransom from their families in Bangladesh.”
The victims returned to Bangladesh of them Kauser Ahmed filed a case with Demra Police Station which was later transferred to the CID.
The SSP said, “Kauser had paid Tk16 lakhs as ransom. The detainees were working for John.”
During primary interrogation, the detainees confessed that several people from India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and a Romania born Australian citizen are involved in the human trafficking gang, the CID official claimed.
Luring people of lucrative jobs abroad, the gang publishes advertisements on different online media and collects huge amount of money, Baki said.
As part of their plot, they first take the jobseekers to Indonesia with hopes that they [jobseekers] will be sent to New Zealand, he said.
“A number of members of the international trafficking gang are staying abroad. We will request the Interpol to help us arrest John and the others,” he added.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in separate drives detained three members of an international human trafficking group from the capital on Thursday night.
The detained persons have been identified as Al Azad, 27, Firoz Ahmed, 28, and Krishna Gopal Dey, 38. They are active members of an international human trafficking gang.
They also recovered about Tk 15 lakh in cash, several mobile phone sets and some fake application forms seeking refugee status in different countries.
Abdullah Hel Baki, Special Superintendent of Police (CID), said this in a press briefing in the capital on Friday morning.
He said that, Azad had been detained from Banani DOHS area, Firoz from Uttara and Krishna from Tanti Bazar area in a night-long drive on Thursday.
He said, “An Australian citizen named John arrived in Bangladesh five months ago. He posted an advertisement in Bikroy.com about his chain shops. He lured people with the fake promise of recruiting them. The man took three fortune seekers to Indonesia with the promise of giving them job in Australia and detained them there. Later, he released them after talking ransom from their families in Bangladesh.”
The victims returned to Bangladesh of them Kauser Ahmed filed a case with Demra Police Station which was later transferred to the CID.
The SSP said, “Kauser had paid Tk16 lakhs as ransom. The detainees were working for John.”
During primary interrogation, the detainees confessed that several people from India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and a Romania born Australian citizen are involved in the human trafficking gang, the CID official claimed.
Luring people of lucrative jobs abroad, the gang publishes advertisements on different online media and collects huge amount of money, Baki said.
As part of their plot, they first take the jobseekers to Indonesia with hopes that they [jobseekers] will be sent to New Zealand, he said.
“A number of members of the international trafficking gang are staying abroad. We will request the Interpol to help us arrest John and the others,” he added.
