Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested eight members of a fraud gang, including seven Nigerian nationals, on charge of fraudulence and cheating in city’s Mirpur and Dakkhinkhan area.
The elite force also recovered 22 mobile phone sets, 3500 naira (currency of Nigeria), 301 dollar (US), 500 dinar (currency of Bahrain) and Tk 1,41,000 from their possession.
They had been identified as Ugochukwu Alfred, Anukwu Donatus Eswealor, Chidi Ibewuike, Michael Onyedika Nneji, Obum Samuel Chukwu Dulo, Henry Esiak, Anayo Ogagba and Bangladeshi Ariful Islam, RAB official said.
Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, Assistant Director of Legal and Media Wing of the RAB
Headquarters, said, “The members of RAB-4 conducted separate drives at Mirpur and Dakkhinkhan areas and netted them.”
They used to lure people in the name of lottery and cheated them big sum of money, the RAB official said.
The arrested men were being interrogated in this connection, he said, adding the Nigerians were all staying in Bangladesh illegally, he said.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested eight members of a fraud gang, including seven Nigerian nationals, on charge of fraudulence and cheating in city’s Mirpur and Dakkhinkhan area.
The elite force also recovered 22 mobile phone sets, 3500 naira (currency of Nigeria), 301 dollar (US), 500 dinar (currency of Bahrain) and Tk 1,41,000 from their possession.
They had been identified as Ugochukwu Alfred, Anukwu Donatus Eswealor, Chidi Ibewuike, Michael Onyedika Nneji, Obum Samuel Chukwu Dulo, Henry Esiak, Anayo Ogagba and Bangladeshi Ariful Islam, RAB official said.
Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, Assistant Director of Legal and Media Wing of the RAB
Headquarters, said, “The members of RAB-4 conducted separate drives at Mirpur and Dakkhinkhan areas and netted them.”
They used to lure people in the name of lottery and cheated them big sum of money, the RAB official said.
The arrested men were being interrogated in this connection, he said, adding the Nigerians were all staying in Bangladesh illegally, he said.
