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According to the police, Sakeb, who studied at the United States International University, has “extensive knowledge” of information technology. In addition to the online hotel booking website Pekham.com in Bangladesh, various domestic and foreign digital services have come to your hands. Before his arrest, Sakeb was working as an expert in various banks in Bangladesh to update the online payment gateway system. He is a guest speaker at 8-9 universities in different countries, including London, Singapore, and Thailand. Sakeb is also in the highest position of some well-known organizations in Bangladesh.
Harun Aur Rashid, Deputy Commissioner of the Tejgaon Police Division, told bdnews24.com on Wednesday: “He set about investigating various Bangladesh Bank money laundering cases in 2016 in his own way, as well as updating various systems.” As an information technology expert, he has been associated with various organizations outside the country.
“This man of international standards has misused his talent to commit this fraud.”
Police arrested Sakeb and his wife’s older brother, Moinul Islam Mamun, on August 25 while investigating a case involving expatriate Bangladeshi businessman from Papua New Guinea, Abdul Wahed, for falsifying his visa card and embezzling Tk 3.5 crore. . They were subsequently detained for five days.
“During pre-trial detention, they confessed to scamming Abdul Waheed’s debit card and embezzling millions of rupees,” Deputy Commissioner Harun said.
He said the two had been sent to jail after Sakeb pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday.
Nazmus Sakeb Naeem at a seminar on employment opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sector at the University of Dhaka last March. Photo taken from Facebook.
Depending on the case, the fraud occurred from July 21 to October 18, 2014.
According to police, Sakeb made large purchases through approximately 1,500 online transactions in those two and a half months. During this time he traveled to different countries and took pleasure trips with his wife and relatives.
In a case filed at the capital’s industrial area police station in December last year, businessman Abdul Waheed said he stopped teaching and started a business in Papua New Guinea. He is the managing director of a company called “Desh Besh Enterprise Limited”. For business purposes, he opened a bank account called South Pacific Limited and took a Visa International debit card. When she went to Singapore in 2014 to use this card for business purposes, she was detained.
When he later returned to the bank in Papua New Guinea, he was informed that all card transactions had been stopped due to suspicious transactions in various countries.
This card is used in different countries, including Bangladesh. He filed the case after going to at least four countries and finding evidence of a transaction in Bangladesh to no avail.
“After the case, we don’t have time to understand the matter. After a thorough investigation for about eight months, we arrested two members of the same family,” said Ali Hossain, OC of the Shilpanchal police station.
In the case, Waheed said that with his debit card, transactions worth Tk 3.5 crore were made from 26 companies. Among them is the Thai Airways office located in Shanta Western Tower on August 4, 2014 at the Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station, Dhaka.
Deputy Commissioner Haroon Aur Rashid said Sakeb used the merchant’s debit card to purchase expensive items and airline tickets to different countries.
Sakeb is very sorry now. He claimed that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture.
Apart from this, the police officers are investigating whether Sakeb is involved in any other fraud.
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