A Correspondent :
Police arrested a businessman from the capital on Monday night in connection with several cases filed by different financial institutions of Chattogram over loan scams and bank cheque frauds.
The arrestee is Md Jahid Hossain Mia, 65, from Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.
Inspector (investigation) Jahir Hossain of Double Mooring Police Station said, “He is managing director (MD) of eight business institutions and also the distributor of six different companies.”
“Police arrested him in front of Radisson Blu Hotel with help from Bhatara Police Station,” said Inspector Jahir.
Police sources said Union Finance Ltd, National Finance Ltd and Eastern Bank Ltd had filed seven cases against Jahid for loan scams, the warrants for which are with Double Mooring Police Station. He also has six arrest warrants with Halishahar Police Station, and 33 with Panchlaish Police Station over loan scams and bank cheque frauds.
The amount of default loan and cheque frauds could not be known, but police suspect that it would be nearly Tk 500 crore.
Jahid is the MD of ZE Steel Ltd (Ship Breaking), Jahid Food and Beverage Ltd, Jahid Fisheries Ltd, Jahid Enterprise Ltd, Discovery Trading Company Ltd, Rehan Fisheries Ltd, ZE Telecom, and ZE Streel Ltd. He is also the distributor of Reckitt Benckiser, Grameenphone Ltd, Marico Bangladesh Ltd, Transcom Beverage Ltd, Nestle Bangladesh Ltd, and Bangladesh Olive Oil Ltd.
One held with huge fake notes : Members of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive on Monday arrested an alleged fake currency trader with huge counterfeit notes worth about Taka 60 thousand from Dhurong village under
Fatikchari upazila of the district.
The arrested was identified as Mohammad Monir Hossain, 36, son of late Diar Mia hailed from Monohorganj of Cumilla district.
