Staff reporter :
The Dhaka office of the iBacs, founded by Bangladesh-born ISIS computer hacker Saiful Haque Sujan, was used as a centre to transact funds for terror activities.
Intelligence personnel arrested five persons on charge of their alleged involvement in this racket and recovered around $50,000 from them.
A British-educated Bangladeshi ISIS jihadi computer expert Sujan was killed by a US-airstrike near Raqqa, the terror group’s capital in Syria.
According to reports published on 3 January in the UK-based Daily Mirror and International Business Times, the Islamic State’s former chief hacker, Sujan, who was killed recently, had been running a major money-laundering operation from his former home in Cardiff.
He was believed to have been the commander of IS’ online operations before his death on 10 December, after moving from Wales to Syria. Now British counter-terror investigators are unravelling
a web of financial transactions which seemed to be funnelling hundreds of thousands of pounds through Bangladesh to Syria, International Business Times reports.
Bangladeshi police have arrested Sujan’s father Abul Hasanat, (70), and his brother, Ahsanul Haque Galib, (15), in Dhaka.
Hasanat is accused of receiving £333,000 from Sujan’s British-based IT company, which it is believed was due to be passed on to a local branch of ISIS, it adds.
According to another source, an intelligence agency in Bangladesh started monitoring the iBacs office in Karwan Bazar around two weeks ago on 10 December after receiving information from British intelligence.
Later, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Sujan’s father Abul Hasanat, brother Hasanul Haque alias Galib Mahmud, brother-in-law and also iBacs Director Tajul Islam (Shakil) and its accountant Nahiddoza Mia and another person related with the iBacs.
The detectives seized Tk 38 lakh and 86 thousands from them. Police filed a case in this regard with Tejgaon police station.
The case statement says Abul Hasanat confessed to police that his two sons, Saiful Haque and Ataul Haque, used to send money to iBacs’ Nahiddoza for terror activities through a Motijheel-based money exchanger. They used to contact each other through Threema instant messaging application.
DMP Joint-Commissioner (Detective Branch) Monirul Islam said, “We have found evidence against the accused for being involved in terror financing.”
According to International Business Times, an associate, Abdul Samad, 24, who was a co-worker and friend of Sujan in Cardiff, was arrested at his house in Newport in Wales on the day Sujan died.
The iBacs office in Karwan Bazar in a multi-storey building has been kept locked by police, said a security guard of the building.
The Dhaka office of the iBacs, founded by Bangladesh-born ISIS computer hacker Saiful Haque Sujan, was used as a centre to transact funds for terror activities.
Intelligence personnel arrested five persons on charge of their alleged involvement in this racket and recovered around $50,000 from them.
A British-educated Bangladeshi ISIS jihadi computer expert Sujan was killed by a US-airstrike near Raqqa, the terror group’s capital in Syria.
According to reports published on 3 January in the UK-based Daily Mirror and International Business Times, the Islamic State’s former chief hacker, Sujan, who was killed recently, had been running a major money-laundering operation from his former home in Cardiff.
He was believed to have been the commander of IS’ online operations before his death on 10 December, after moving from Wales to Syria. Now British counter-terror investigators are unravelling
a web of financial transactions which seemed to be funnelling hundreds of thousands of pounds through Bangladesh to Syria, International Business Times reports.
Bangladeshi police have arrested Sujan’s father Abul Hasanat, (70), and his brother, Ahsanul Haque Galib, (15), in Dhaka.
Hasanat is accused of receiving £333,000 from Sujan’s British-based IT company, which it is believed was due to be passed on to a local branch of ISIS, it adds.
According to another source, an intelligence agency in Bangladesh started monitoring the iBacs office in Karwan Bazar around two weeks ago on 10 December after receiving information from British intelligence.
Later, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Sujan’s father Abul Hasanat, brother Hasanul Haque alias Galib Mahmud, brother-in-law and also iBacs Director Tajul Islam (Shakil) and its accountant Nahiddoza Mia and another person related with the iBacs.
The detectives seized Tk 38 lakh and 86 thousands from them. Police filed a case in this regard with Tejgaon police station.
The case statement says Abul Hasanat confessed to police that his two sons, Saiful Haque and Ataul Haque, used to send money to iBacs’ Nahiddoza for terror activities through a Motijheel-based money exchanger. They used to contact each other through Threema instant messaging application.
DMP Joint-Commissioner (Detective Branch) Monirul Islam said, “We have found evidence against the accused for being involved in terror financing.”
According to International Business Times, an associate, Abdul Samad, 24, who was a co-worker and friend of Sujan in Cardiff, was arrested at his house in Newport in Wales on the day Sujan died.
The iBacs office in Karwan Bazar in a multi-storey building has been kept locked by police, said a security guard of the building.
