Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Newmarket police station arrested him from an office called Bansree Model Agency on Sunday (October 13) morning. At that time, 9 check books of 9 banks, three ATM cards, two Visa cards and two mobile phones used for fraud were seized from his work.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC) Muhammad Talebur Rahman of DMP's public relations and media wing confirmed this information. He said that on the afternoon of September 29, the plaintiff with the Facebook ID named Anna Harrison. Nuruzzaman was contacted. The person asked the plaintiff to talk to a WhatsApp number.
He told the plaintiff that a man named Mohammad Belton of Bangladeshi origin died while working in the United States and that the man had five million dollars deposited in the Alliance Bank of the United States. He asked the plaintiff to identify the relatives of the deceased and gave another WhatsApp number of the Alliance Bank manager. Anna Harrison asks to give the message she made to the bank manager.
He then gave the plaintiff the number of his alleged legal counsel and the plaintiff contacted him. The alleged legal counsel asked the plaintiff to send $76,000 to receive the insurance money. Anna Harrison later sent plaintiff a payment slip for $76,000.
Later, the alleged bank manager told the plaintiff that he had given 2 pieces of luggage to a shipping company to send Bima's $5 million to Bangladesh, as evidenced by a video. When the bank manager asked to pay Tk 1 lakh 85 thousand for insurance cost and delivery cost, the plaintiff deposited it in an account of Uttara branch of Dutch Bangla Bank as per his word.
Then on October 3, at 8 am, an unknown person called from a number, identified himself as a customs officer of Dhaka Airport and said that the plaintiff's two luggages were stuck at the customs. When asked to pay Tk 4 lakh 7 thousand to release the two luggages, the plaintiff deposited it in an Islami Bank account as they said. After that the plaintiff paid another 11 lakh 75 thousand taka for income tax and taxes to another account of Islami Bank as per the said customs officer.
Even after receiving this money, they want another 10 lakh 50 thousand from the plaintiff. When the plaintiff suspected that he was asking for money repeatedly, he contacted the airport customs and found out that it was the work of an organized fraud circle.
In this way, the conglomerate fraudsters cheated a total of 17 lakh 67 thousand rupees from the plaintiff. Plaintiff in this incident. Following Nuruzzaman's complaint, a case of fraud was filed at Newmarket police station on October 12 against some anonymous persons. He was arrested on the basis of the case.