Five fraudsters held in Dhaka

Detectives claimed to have arrested five members of a fraud gang from Dhaka's Kamalapur area on charge of deceiving people, luring them with jobs.

They are: Ashraful Islam Babu (39), Abdul Karim (60), Fazlur Rahman (44), Shamsul Alam Majumder (50) and Shirina Akter (30).

A team of detectives made the arrest from a house on Monday evening, hours after a victim filed a case with Uttara Paschim Police Station in this regard, said Badruzzaman Zillu, additional deputy commissioner (DB, Uttara division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

The gang used to rent offices in different areas in the capital and published job circulars in newspapers to attract unemployed persons, he told The Daily Star.

As the interested youths appeared for "interviews", the frauds demanded money from them as prerequisite; in exchange they offered shares of their so-called company, Zillu said.

After getting the money, they used to issue appointment letters to the jobseekers.

A couple of days after that, they would vanish, closing their office but resumed their fraudulent activities in another place with different name, he added.