Staff Reporter :
Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday said that they had detained suspected chief of Information Technology (IT) of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from the city’s Bhatara area on Monday evening.
The detainee was earlier introduced as Ashfaq-ur-Rahman Aka Ayon.
He is also known as Arif and Anik, said the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Unit Chief Monirul Islam at a press conference on Tuesday.
Ashafaq met the chief of the ABT’s military branch sacked Army Major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, the police official said.
Monirul Islam said, “Ashfaq joined the ABT while studying computer science at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). He was made ABT IT chief in 2015.”
Ashfaq used to collect information such as names, addresses and movements of targeted bloggers by hacking into their social media accounts, Monirul Islam said quoting the militant.
A laptop, a mobile phone set and an article written by slain al-Qaeda Chief Osama-bin-Laden were recovered from his possession, he added. In 2015, the government banned the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) under the country’s terrorism act.
Major Syed Ziaul Haque known as Zia, head of the military operations of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, failed to orchestrate a coup in 2011. Since then, he has been on the run and has a Tk 20 lakh bounty on him.
Meanwhile, the IT expert Md Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman has been placed on a five-day remand. Metropolitan Magistrate Pranab Kumar passed the order after law enforcers produced him in the court seeking a 10-day remand prayer, said SM Shahriar Hasan, Inspector of Counter Terrorism unit of DMP.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday said that they had detained suspected chief of Information Technology (IT) of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from the city’s Bhatara area on Monday evening.
The detainee was earlier introduced as Ashfaq-ur-Rahman Aka Ayon.
He is also known as Arif and Anik, said the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Unit Chief Monirul Islam at a press conference on Tuesday.
Ashafaq met the chief of the ABT’s military branch sacked Army Major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, the police official said.
Monirul Islam said, “Ashfaq joined the ABT while studying computer science at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). He was made ABT IT chief in 2015.”
Ashfaq used to collect information such as names, addresses and movements of targeted bloggers by hacking into their social media accounts, Monirul Islam said quoting the militant.
A laptop, a mobile phone set and an article written by slain al-Qaeda Chief Osama-bin-Laden were recovered from his possession, he added. In 2015, the government banned the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) under the country’s terrorism act.
Major Syed Ziaul Haque known as Zia, head of the military operations of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, failed to orchestrate a coup in 2011. Since then, he has been on the run and has a Tk 20 lakh bounty on him.
Meanwhile, the IT expert Md Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman has been placed on a five-day remand. Metropolitan Magistrate Pranab Kumar passed the order after law enforcers produced him in the court seeking a 10-day remand prayer, said SM Shahriar Hasan, Inspector of Counter Terrorism unit of DMP.
