Fraudster who duped jobseekers wearing ‘uniform’ arrested
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested a fraud gang's ringleader, who has embezzled crores of taka from around a hundred jobseekers, introducing himself as an army official.
A Rab-4 team arrested Sheikh Selim alias Shuvo (35) from the capital's Mirpur area on Wednesday, said Sajedul Islam, senior assistant director of Rab-4.
"He used to introduce himself as an employee of a government agency. By doing so, he collected jobseekers, took interview and gave them fake appointment letters of the agency. From every jobseeker, this gang used to take Tk 5-10 lakh," he said.
The official said this gang maintains an organisational structure by which they employed people in field level. They targeted unemployed, innocent people from villages. They have duped more than a hundred jobseekers, he added.
Apart from the arrestee, 10-12 people are involved with the gang, according to Rab.
Rab seized eight fake appointment letters, three bank cheques, three ATM cards, two laptops and a car from Selim's possession.
The fraudulent activities came to light after a victim, village farmer Hasan Sikder, filed a general diary (GD) against the fraudsters with Mirpur Model Police Station, on January 30.
Hasan said that he got introduced to Selim one and a half years back. The two one day set a meeting, where Selim came in a microbus, wearing a camo print uniform resembling those worn by armed forces personnel.
Selim had told Hasan that he had given many people jobs in different positions of an official establishment for Tk 6 lakh per person.
Hasan then sent six people including his family member, relatives and neighbours to Selim for jobs and gave Selim Tk 36 lakh.
After interviewing the jobseekers, the group of fraudsters gave appointment letters on "official letterheads". Hasan said when the jobseekers went to the location to join work, they found out that the letters were forged.
The Rab said they are trying to arrest the other members of the gang.
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