Passport cheats caught
A few of the fake passports and seals seized from the seven cheats in Banani. Insert, Some of the fake seals of high-ranking officials the gang managed to forge. The photo was taken at the DB headquarters on Minto Road.Photo: STAR
Detective Branch of Police Tuesday arrested seven cheats of a gang at a recruiting agency in the city's Banani and seized around 1,400 fake passports and various fake seals and writing pads from their possession.
Additional Commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam of DB told The Daily Star that the cheats had been taking thousands of taka from innocent people who want to go abroad to work through the recruiting agency Kishwa Enterprise.
Mollah Nazrul Islam, who led the drive, also said they seized various kinds of seals and writing pads which the criminals used for forging documents to collect money from people.
The detained are Anwar Hossain, 39, Ferdows Alam, 32, Ismail Hossain, 36, Alamgir Hossain, 25, Sukkur Ali, 35, AKM Zia Uddin Faruq, 28, and Ala Uddin, 59. They are staffs of the recruiting agency on Road-4 of Banani.
DB official sources said they seized fake seals of officers-in-charge of different police stations, magistrates, foreign ministry officials, MBBS doctors, UP chairmen and commissioner of passport office.
During preliminary interrogation, the cheats admitted their involvement in the cheating ring and said Rajib Chowdhury and Suman Ahmed were their bosses, sources said.
Mollah Nazrul Islam said all the arrestees were produced before the court with prayer for a 10-day remand for each. The court placed them on seven-day remand each.
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