CID arrests fraudsters

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested a man along with his associate, who used to allegedly pose as an American expatriate to scam people.

Altaf Hossain, 48, and his associate Shariful Islam, 58, were arrested from Satarkul area of Badda in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Altaf reportedly wore expensive clothes, drove a luxury car, and claimed to have many businesses and connections with high officials both in the US and Bangladesh, police said.

By doing so, he lured people with promises of jobs in the US. Once someone paid him in this regard, he used to go into hiding, they added.

During a press briefing yesterday, CID (Dhaka Metro South) Special Superintendent Mohammad Kamruzzaman said Altaf is the leader of a swindling gang. He never went abroad but introduced himself as an executive director of an American company.

In the name of sending people to the US and giving jobs at his companies, he took crores from gullible people. He also took money to build a nursing home in his mother’s name, the CID official said.

In 2018, around 20 became victims of this gang and filed a case with Kotwali Police Station.