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A fraudulent network has committed a number of crimes including the fabrication of fake national identity cards (NIDs), bank loans worth millions of rupees, and land fraud. Data entry operators hired by Electoral Commission (EC) outsourcing have helped create this cycle of bogus NIDs. These rogue EC officials have taken thousands of rupees for making each NID by fraud.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said that 42 of those workers have been fired and a departmental case has been filed against them. The Electoral Commission has blocked 1,056 National Identity Cards (NID) used to commit fraud. The EC legal department has filed 558 cases against him in different police stations across the country.
The case came to light after the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police (DB) arrested nine people, including the EC data entry operator, for allegedly helping to create a fake NID.
DB police sources said they have already found evidence of the use of these fake NIDs to obtain loans of at least Tk 12 crore from various banks, including BRAC Bank and Citibank. They have sought the help of the Credit Information Office (CIB) of the Bangladesh Bank to find out exactly how much loan has been taken. Additionally, the gang is involved in various criminal activities, including land grabbing and sale through fraud.
DB police say the union has taken one lakh of rupees for making each NID by fraud. Of which, EC data entry operators get Rs 50-60 lakhs. The rest of the money was received by other members of the union.
On September 5, DB police arrested five members of the NID fraud ring, including two EC workers, from the D-Block area of Mirpur’s Zoo Road. They are: Siddharth Shankar Sutradhar, data entry operator, EC Khilgaon office, and Anwarul Islam, data entry operator, Gulshan office, their associates Sumon Parvez, Majid and Abdullah Al Mamun. During the arrest, 12 bogus, fake and fake NIDs were recovered. They were referred by DB police in the case presented in this incident. Police arrested four more people from two districts outside of Dhaka on the basis of the information provided to them during questioning.
Investigating Officer on the case, Madhusudan Das, Assistant Commissioner (AC) of the Organized Crime and Auto Theft Prevention Team of DB’s Lalbagh Division, told the Bengali Tribune: There have also been discussions with the EC. A letter has been sent to the banks stating which NID the scammers have used to withdraw money from the banks. We will give you the charge sheet shortly after the investigation is completed.
EC sources, meanwhile, say that at least one million people wanted to be dual voters in the last 10 years. Where in 2019 alone, two lakh seven thousand 835 people applied to become voters for the second time. Of these, 1,057 have been identified as malicious dual voters.
According to interested sources, the security of the national database is in question because some unscrupulous workers have to issue identity cards according to many regulations. They have illegally issued NID cards twice in exchange for money.
When asked, the Director General of the National Identity Registration Division, Brigadier General Mohammad Saidul Islam told the Bengali Tribune: “A committee has been formed to investigate all these irregularities. They are working. I have been able to identify those who have taken NID cards for fraud. And measures have also been taken against the officials who have committed these corruptions. Digital signatures were added, as well as facial recognition and Irish scans. Now no one can create a double or fake NID, even if they want to. ‘
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