6 arrested for extortion; used to pose as members of infamous 'Seven-Star Group'
Detective have arrested six persons on charge of extorting money -- through threats over phone calls, posing as members of a top terror gang.
The criminals, who identified themselves as members of "Seven-Star Group", were arrested from Jatrabari, Motijheel, Paltan and Turag areas on Thursday, said Walid Hossain, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
The arrestees are: Billal Khan, Rakib Khan Titul, Abdul Hannan, Delwar Hossain, Md Sohag and Rashed Alam.
Seven-Star Group once enjoyed widespread notoriety, boasting top criminals like Subrata Bain, Mollah Masud and Murgi Milon.
Law enforcers carried out raids based on complaints of a Cox's Bazar based businessman whom the gang called over phone and demanded Tk 5 lakh, posing as members of Seven-Star Group.
He paid Tk 35,000 through mobile financial services but the gang demanded more. They threatened to abduct and kill his family members, detective officials quoted the victim.
At a press conference at DMP media centre, Walid, who was recently promoted to the rank of Additional Deputy Inspector General, said this gang included three groups.
One group used to collect phone numbers of important persons, businessmen from different directories and books and supply those to the second group.
The second group used to call the targeted persons. They used to tell them that several members of their gang are currently in jail and huge sums of money are being spent to bail them out. So, they are taking financial help from various established businessmen and important persons.
They used to issue threats to harm their family members and asked them to send the demanded money thorough mobile financial service.
The third group used to collect the money, Walid added.
A case was filed with Jatrabari Police Station in this regard.
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