Couple held for fake savings certificates worth Tk 9 crore
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested a couple in Khulna for allegedly faking savings certificates worth Tk 9 crore.
HMA Barik alias Badal alias Hawlader alias Mostak Ahmed and his spouse Murshida Afrin were arrested from Khalishpur area on January 7, Faruk Hossain, additional superintendent of CID, according to at a press briefing at CID headquarters in Dhaka yesterday.
The Economic Crime Squad of the Organised Crime Unit of CID arrested the couple for misappropriating Tk 8.65 crore from two private banks by faking identities and amassing loans, the CID official said.
“The ring has 21 members who embezzle money from banks by showing fake savings certificates with the help of bank officials,” said the CID official.
This gang has been engaging in fraud since 2004 and there are seven cases against them filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, he added.
The arrested couple has Tk 2 crore in the bank and three multi-storey buildings in the capital’s Gulshan, Uttara and Uttarkhan areas, he added.
“Mostak was absconding in India and Malaysia after a warrant was issued against him. Returning to the country in 2011, he continued the same fraud,” the CID official added.
The CID said the kingpin of the ring is an industrialist and he had business in Dhaka Stock Exchange.
Process is underway to bring him under the law, the police official added.
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