Staff Reporter :
A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Saturday claimed to have arrested four persons alleged from Dhaka and Kishoreganj districts for their link connection with a trafficking.
They are Taslim Uddin, 50, Mohammad Mofazzal Hossain, 48, Ayub Ali, 52 and Mohammad Arman Sarkar, 42.
They also rescued one victim named Saddam Hossain, 23, from Libya. Saddam was also present
at the press conference on Saturday. Ahsan Habib Polash, Special Superintendent of PBI, said this at a press briefing at Dhanmondi office in the capital on Saturday morning.
The officials said that victim Saddam Hossain paid Tk 4 lakh to the trafficking syndicate and was sent to Libya on December 24 last year.
With the combined efforts of National Central Bureau of Police Headquarters, Bangladesh Embassy in Libya and the PBI, Saddam was rescued in Libya and brought back to Bangladesh recently, according to the police official.
The traffickers send people to Iraq and Libya promising them a better life and economic welfare, he added.
Saddam Hossain said, the traffickers seized his passport and also demanded money from Saddam’s family in Netrakona of Bangladesh.
At the camp, Saddam saw 14 other Bangladeshis who were held hostage there by the gang, he said.
“In the time I was in Tripoli I was sold two to three times,” he added.
He spoke of his torture by the syndicate ring which is run by nationals of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Libya.They received around Tk 5 lakh from his family in the last 10 months.
A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Saturday claimed to have arrested four persons alleged from Dhaka and Kishoreganj districts for their link connection with a trafficking.
They are Taslim Uddin, 50, Mohammad Mofazzal Hossain, 48, Ayub Ali, 52 and Mohammad Arman Sarkar, 42.
They also rescued one victim named Saddam Hossain, 23, from Libya. Saddam was also present
at the press conference on Saturday. Ahsan Habib Polash, Special Superintendent of PBI, said this at a press briefing at Dhanmondi office in the capital on Saturday morning.
The officials said that victim Saddam Hossain paid Tk 4 lakh to the trafficking syndicate and was sent to Libya on December 24 last year.
With the combined efforts of National Central Bureau of Police Headquarters, Bangladesh Embassy in Libya and the PBI, Saddam was rescued in Libya and brought back to Bangladesh recently, according to the police official.
The traffickers send people to Iraq and Libya promising them a better life and economic welfare, he added.
Saddam Hossain said, the traffickers seized his passport and also demanded money from Saddam’s family in Netrakona of Bangladesh.
At the camp, Saddam saw 14 other Bangladeshis who were held hostage there by the gang, he said.
“In the time I was in Tripoli I was sold two to three times,” he added.
He spoke of his torture by the syndicate ring which is run by nationals of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Libya.They received around Tk 5 lakh from his family in the last 10 months.
