UNB, Satkhira :Police in a drive arrested three officials of a fake non-governmental organisation (NGO), including its head,from a hotel in the district town on Friday morning on charge of conning people out of Tk 45 crore.The arrestees were identified as Abdur Razzak, 50, chief of RDP Finance and Investment, its Satkhira branch manager Julkar Nain and cashier Hafizur Rahman.Tipped off that the NGO officials were holding a meeting at Tiger Plus Hotel to reorganise the NGO, a team of police conducted the drive there in the morning and arrested them.Emdad Sheikh, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the NGO swindled around Tk 45 crore from 20,000 people promising to provide them with Tk 2,500 as interest against the investment of Tk 1 lakh per month. The cheated clients laid siege to the local NGO office on May 13 this year as they refused to pay the profit as well as the capital. Following the incident, police locked the NGO office after arresting four of its workers on the day.
