Jumbangla Desk: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Newmarket Police Station has arrested another active member of an organized fraudster in the case of fraud in a novel way by luring five million dollars of insurance of a person who died in the United States. The name of the arrested is Panna Begum (41).
According to a press release of DMP, he was arrested in a raid in Rupganj area of Narayanganj at 5:30 pm on Thursday (October 17). At that time, from his custody, fraudulently recovered cash amounting to Tk 6,1,250, check sheets of 36 accounts of different banks, three Visa cards, four mobile phones used in fraud, eight SIM cards, eight visiting cards of fake agency called Panna International, one used in fraud Rubber stamps, a seal pad and an official hand bag were recovered.
According to the Newmarket police source, the victim was accused of fraud with the lure of five million dollars. Nuruzzaman filed a case at the Newmarket police station on October 12 as the plaintiff.
It is said in the statement of the case, on the afternoon of September 29, the plaintiff with the Facebook ID named Anna Harrison (Anna Harrison). Nuruzzaman was contacted. He told the plaintiff that a man named Mohammad Belton of Bangladeshi origin died while working in the United States and that Belton 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 adviser and the plaintiff contacted him. The alleged legal counsel asked the plaintiff to send US$76,000 to receive the insurance money. Later, 'Anna Harrison' gave the plaintiff a payment slip for the payment of US$76,000.
Later, the alleged bank manager told the plaintiff that he had given two luggages to a shipping company to send Bima five million dollars to Bangladesh and showed a video as evidence. When the bank manager said to pay one lakh 85 thousand for insurance cost and delivery cost, the plaintiff deposited it in an account of Uttara branch of Dutch Bangla Bank as he said. Then on October 3, at 8 am, an unknown person called from a number and identified himself as the customs officer of Dhaka Airport and said that the plaintiff's two luggages were stuck at the customs. When told to pay Tk 4 lakh and seven 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 giving these money, they want another 10 lakh 50 thousand from the plaintiff. If the plaintiff suspects that he is asking for money repeatedly, he can contact the airport customs and find out that it is 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.
Police sources also said that Panna Begum, an important member of the fraud gang, was arrested on Thursday (October 17) in Bholta Bazar area of Narayanganj's Rupganj police station with the help of information and technology in this case under investigation.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the arrested Panna Begum, as a member of an organized fraudster, was operating a fake Facebook ID under the name of 'Anna Harrison' and called the victims posing as a customs officer and asking for money from them. In this way, the fraudsters have cheated many people with the same strategy for a long time and have stolen crores of rupees.
Legal action is pending against the arrested at Newmarket police station. Proper investigation of the case and operation to arrest other members of the fraudsters is continuing.
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Incidentally, on October 13, a member of this fraud circle from an office called Banasree Model Agency in the capital. Aziz Mullah was arrested.
