Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Monday sent seven people of a fraud gang to the jail on completion of their two days remand.
Magistrate Mahmuda Akter of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order responding to the plea of the Investigation Officer of DB Cyber and Special Crime unit Sub-Inspector Pran Krishna Sarker. The court heard the submissions of the prosecution and the defence and rejected the bail plea. The defence lawyers sought bail of the accused people.
The seven accused people are Chinese citizens Hi Ming Shi and Yiang Siki, Majumder Fazle Gofran, Ahsan Kamal, Himel-Ur-Rashid, Najmus Sakib and Zerin Tasnim Binae Islam.
Police informed the media people that the accused were involved in running illegal financial organizations: Thunder Light Technology Limited, New Vision Fin-Tek Limited and Basic Development Society without government approval.
They were collecting information about their customers without any legal approval. It has been learnt that the server of these apps are in China and the activities were conducted from there.
The customers were attracted by their false advertisements and took loan at low interest whereas they were compelled to pay interest at higher rates and thus they were deceived. While giving loan they did not took any security from the customers.
A fraud case was filed under the Digital Security Act with Dhanmondi Police Station following the complain of an aggrieved customer.
