They had fake certificates for everything
A man and his wife have embezzled over Tk 7.31 crore from job aspirants with their 12 fraud educational institutions in Bogura and Rangpur.
With the slogan “Get Admitted and Pass Exams”, their institutions offer medical courses, engineering courses, fine arts courses, library and information science courses, polytechnic courses, paramedic courses and many more.
Over 500 job aspirants fell victim to the fraud institutions.
The information were revealed after Crime Investigation Department (CID) of police yesterday detained the duo: Al Farabi Md Nurul Islam, 52, and his wife Aklima Khatun, 41.
Rayhan Uddin Khan, additional superintended (organised crime) of CID, said the duo was illegally selling certificates to fresh graduates and job holders.
“Their institutions have no permission to operate,” he said, adding that CID started investigating the matter in 2018 after Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit forwarded a complaint filed in 2016.
Seeing leaflets of three institutions that offered fine arts courses, Jahangir Alam, director of National University’s Rajshahi zone, filed the complaint first in 2016, CID said.
Ebrahim Hossain, inspector of CID, said they found proof of money embezzlement.
“The bank accounts of the duo were also frozen by the court,” he added.
The couple mostly targeted graduates and made them secure admission in their institutions luring with fake job promises, Ebrahim said.
They also targeted school teachers because teachers need the certificates to comply with jobs at the MPO benefitted institutions, he added.
The duo took at least Tk 50,000 from each candidate as admission fees. In case of delayed payments, they charged even more, he further added.
The CID filed a money laundering case against the duo with Bogura Police Station yesterday.
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