Staff Reporter :
A total of 35 people including two Supreme Court lawyers have been cheated recently by a party when they wanted to migrate to Australia.
The deceived persons have filed two cases, one with Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka and another with Cyber Crime Tribunal in Dhaka, in this regard.
According to the case documents, Umme Fatema Rosy, who introduced herself as the current Consular General of Sydney Immigration Office, Sydney, Australia, took a total of Tk 5887600 from 35 persons as application fee through two accounts of the Islami Bank Limited. Her Australian passport No is PA9740312.
Umme Fatema’s mother Farida Yesmin and brother Rakib Hasan Mitul also have been named as accused in the cases.
Umme Fatema assured the migrant aspirants that she would manage visas for them under the ‘Relative Sponsor Migration (Sub-Class-835) Permanent Residence Visa’ program to go to Australia. But after receiving the application fees, she cut all kinds of relationship with the aspirants. Then the aspirants filed two cases.
The aspirants gave her in total Tk 58,87,600 through Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited’s two accounts with Ramna Branch and Kishorgonj Branch.
Umme Fatema Rosy told them through mail that no direct interview would be held because of Covid-19 situation and it would be held over mobile phone. After completing the interviews through online process, the Medicare card form was also sent to them.
After receiving the Visa application fees, Rosy sent them Application File Numbers, Medical Examination Forms for Covid-19 reports, took interviews over phone and signed Medicare Forms. Thereafter, she sent them tickets and they took preparation to go to Australia.
But at one stage the aspirants came to know that all the visas and plane tickets were fake. Then they tried to communicate with Rosy and her relatives living in Bangladesh, but failed. Finally MABM Khairul Islam, an advocate of the Supreme Court, on behalf of the aspirants lodged two separated cases in this regard.
“Due to the closure of VFS Bangladesh Global Pvt Ltd on the 17th June, 2021, we knew through various sources that all the Visas, Tickets, Medicare Cards and Health Care Cards which were sent to us were fake as well as false and our money was embezzled through fraud,” read the case statement.
Umme Fatema Rosy used some email ids to cheat the aspirants are— [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected].
