8 including 3 foreigners held for 'fraud'

The Detective Branch of police claimed to have arrested eight persons including three foreign nationals allegedly for fraudulence in the capital on Friday night.

The detainees have been identified as Biplab Laskar, Harunur Rashid alias Kamal, Rezaul Islam, Md Kawsar, Shawkat Ali, and three Nigerians Chukwa Emmanuel alias Ubenna, Michael Boumneme alias Eugene and David alias Uchennia Nicholas.

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The suspects were nabbed at Mohammadpur and Baridhara, and 67 cheques and 15 ATM cards, 16 cell phones and a laptop were seized from their possession, Abdul Baten, joint commissioner (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told a press briefing at DMP media centre yesterday.

The detainees cheated people by sending text messages about winning handsome amounts of money in lottery abroad, said the DB official.

Later they asked the targeted person to send some money for clearing the prize money from customs and after receiving the money they stopped communicating, he said.