'Jiner Badsha' arrested
The advertisement ran like this: If you have a problem, he has a solution.
Be it marital dispute, financial crisis, curing diseases, collecting debt, subjugating a loved one or what not, claiming himself a “Jiner Badsha” (king of genies), he used to offer people hope of solving all their problems.
However, those who responded were duped and eventually robbed off their money after falling into the trap of Jubair Ahmed -- the so-called Jiner Badsha.
The 27-year-old has been conning people for a long time, but luck finally ran out for Jubair as the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested him from a hotel in Dhaka's Farmgate area yesterday morning.
Law enforcers arrested him in connection with a fraud case filed last year, Shah Alam, deputy inspector general of CID, told a press briefing at its headquarters in Malibagh around noon.
Jubair's three accomplices -- Zafar Iqbal alias Kajal, Sagar and Samir -- were also arrested recently.
Syeda Jannat, special superintendent of CID, said the accused are members of an organised criminal gang and they used to embezzle money from people by posting advertisements in two weekly magazines. They used the name of “Darbar Sharif” (shrine) and pictures of some huzurs (religious leaders) to lure people, she added.
“One Taiyubur Rahman, on a monthly payment of Tk 20,000, helped Jubair publish those advertisements,” she said, adding that many people became victims of such fraudulence.
One such victim was Sohel Rana of Bhola. Sohel was assured of “winning a lottery” and thus he gave Jubair around Tk 42.25 lakh through an online money transfer service. But all the money was embezzled, the police official added.
Sohel filed a fraud case with Borhan Uddin Police Station in Bhola on July 22 last year.
The CID officials said Jubair was also convicted in another case with the same police station in 2011.
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