It’s hard to trust anyone these days
Mujibur Rahman and his family were eagerly preparing for his daughter's and his niece's wedding in Madaripur's Shibchar.
The brides' brothers, who are currently working in Dubai, sent 28 tolas of gold bars and ornaments, and phone sets as gifts through another expat.
However, the festive mood in the family soon turned into a state of panic when their carrier went into hiding with the gifts, upon landing in Dhaka.
According to the statement of a case filed over the embezzlement, Dubai expatriate Md Arif and his cousin Md Toyab purchased two gold bars weighing 20 tolas and gold ornaments weighing eight tolas at a cost of Tk 26.04 lakh for the brides.
For the grooms, they purchased one iPhone 13 at Tk 1.75 lakh and a Samsung Galaxy S-22 Ultra at Tk 1.40 lakh.
As they could not manage to leave work, they decided to send the gifts through one of their acquaintances Md Shawon Ahmed, 30, who went to Dubai around six months ago. However, he decided to return failing to manage any job.
Arif and Toyab provided Shawon with a Dubai to Dhaka air ticket and 1,400 Dirham worth Tk 42,700 to pay the taxes for the gifts. They even recorded a video while handing over the items to Shawon.
Shawon landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 4:00am on January 13. However, without handing over the gifts to Arif's father Mujibur, who was waiting at the airport, he left the airport through the staff gate and fled to his father-in-law's house at Bogura's Sariakandi.
He switched his phone off and stopped contacting his family as well. In no time, he sold the gold bars, some of the ornaments and the cell phones.
With the money, he started constructing a one-story building at his in-law's house and bought a motorcycle. A portion of it was also spent on repaying the loans he made for going to Dubai.
Mujibur eventually filed a case against Shawon, his brother Md Nirob and two others with the Airport police station on February 9.
Lalbagh Zone of DMP's Detective Branch DB finally arrested Shawon on Wednesday from his rented house in Bogura. Around Tk 4.5 lakh, five tolas of gold and the cellphones were recovered from him.
Shawon is currently under a two-day remand by DB.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Lalbagh Zone of DB Mostafa Kamal, who led the drive, said they are trying to arrest the man to whom Shawon sold the gold at almost half the actual price and recover the rest of the gold.
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