The objective of the cycle is the entrepreneurs and industrialists of sixty years

Dhaka: Communication and intimacy begin with a meeting in the office or talking on a mobile phone by collecting mobile numbers and personal information. He started cheating claiming to be a lover by recording conversations on his mobile phone to trap her.

Millions of rupees have been taken from many high-ranking people in society. Hatirjheel police arrested a network of money launderers.

Those arrested are Parveen Akhter alias Nupur, 28, her older sister Shefali Begum, 40, Shamsuddoha Khan alias Babu, 40, an employee of Perfect Travel Agency in Motijheel and Rubel Mahmud Anik, 26, customer service manager for the mobile company.

Police arrested all four on Thursday (December 3) in connection with the case of a victim at the Hatirjheel police station. They were arrested on 3, 4 and 6 December in Mohammadpur, Niketan, Ramna and Badda. Parveen and Anik have been in pre-trial detention for three days and are being questioned by the police.

Police say it targets people of different professions, 60 and older. They have admitted to blackmailing at least 20 people in this way. Among them are doctors, engineers, well-paid private employees. It has taken a minimum of Rs 5 lakh and a maximum of Rs 20 lakh from them. The defendant Shamsuddoha Khan Babu used to collect the mobile phone numbers of the wealthy who went abroad regularly to work in a travel agency and also collected the mobile phone numbers of various industrialists, businessmen, politicians and high-ranking employees and handed them over to Parveen Akhter. As a social worker or job seeker, you communicate with these people directly or by phone. The blackmail began by recording sensitive personal words on the mobile.

If the SIM of the target person belongs to Grameen Phone, Nupur collects the information of the person used in the SIM registration with money from Rubel Mahmud Anik, a member of the service center staff. The blackmail also started from that source of information. At one point, phonograph records were released and the man’s family was threatened. The demand was from five to fifty lakh rupees. Shefali, Nupur’s older sister, was shocked when she refused to pay. He threatened to sue the woman for having an immoral relationship with her sister. The victims were forced to pay out of fear of their worth.

Mohammad Harun Aur Rashid, deputy police commissioner in the Tejgaon division, said many had been left destitute by paying money to gang members. Many don’t want to complain about embarrassment. Legal action will be taken against the sponsors of this cycle and all members involved in the cycle.

Bangladesh time: 0822 hours, December 10, 2020
MMI / RA