Staff Reporter :
Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police in a night-long drive detained seven persons, including five Nigerian footballers from different parts of the capital on Sunday night on charge of fraudulence.
The foreign nationals are OgokhoyaOnochi, 32, Maurice 34, Obina, 35, Henry 24, Anthony KozitoArrengi, 26.
Two Bangladesh citizens are Md Kausar Ahmed and Raisul Islam Asad, CID officials said.
Special Superintendent of Organised Crime, Mollah Nazrul Islam said that a CID team conducted an operation after receiving information that the football players were involved in fraud and committed crimes.
They have so far tracked 19 accounts, with record of illegal transactions, the CID official said. The arrested men confessed their involvement in crime, he said.
A case has been filed with the local police station in this connection, he added.
On August 8, a team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested five Nigerian citizens with four laptops, 11 mobile phones, 20 SIM cards, some pen drives and cash money of Tk11,900.
They were picked up from Hemayetpur, Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, in connection with fraud and taking money from people through cyber crime.
Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police in a night-long drive detained seven persons, including five Nigerian footballers from different parts of the capital on Sunday night on charge of fraudulence.
The foreign nationals are OgokhoyaOnochi, 32, Maurice 34, Obina, 35, Henry 24, Anthony KozitoArrengi, 26.
Two Bangladesh citizens are Md Kausar Ahmed and Raisul Islam Asad, CID officials said.
Special Superintendent of Organised Crime, Mollah Nazrul Islam said that a CID team conducted an operation after receiving information that the football players were involved in fraud and committed crimes.
They have so far tracked 19 accounts, with record of illegal transactions, the CID official said. The arrested men confessed their involvement in crime, he said.
A case has been filed with the local police station in this connection, he added.
On August 8, a team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested five Nigerian citizens with four laptops, 11 mobile phones, 20 SIM cards, some pen drives and cash money of Tk11,900.
They were picked up from Hemayetpur, Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, in connection with fraud and taking money from people through cyber crime.
