Fraudster flees with depositors’ money
With the hope of getting huge profit, speech and hearing-impaired Kamol Chandra Saha started depositing money in a scheme of an insurance company in 2010.
But to his utter despair, in-charge of the insurance company's Lalmonirhat office suddenly disappeared with all the money of several depositors' after locking the office in 2013.
Kamol, a small trader from Karnpur village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, was expressing his suffering through sign language and said being inspired by his team leader Alamgir Molla he started depositing money in Islami DPS, a scheme of Golden Life Insurance Limited, in 2010.
He used to deposit Tk 300 every month and continued the monthly deposit scheme for the next three years till 2013.
But in 2013, Nazrul Islam, in-charge of the insurance company's Lalmonirhat office, disappeared overnight, closing the branch office.
By then Kamol was able to deposit a total of Tk 8,000.
Like Kamol, 14 other speech and hearing-impaired people from different areas of the district also deposited Tk 7,000 to Tk 8,000 each, hoping to get a huge profit.
Now, they all are upset as though 10 years have already been passed, nothing has been done in this regard yet.
One of the depositors Mohammad Islam of the village said, "Profit seems a far cry, now we want our capital money back."
While talking through sign language, Alamgir Hossain, leader of the speech and hearing-impaired people in Lalmonirhat, said, "We opened the DPS scheme after being encouraged by Nazrul Islam and deposited the money through him."
"If we don't get our deposited money back we will file a case with the local police station," he added.
Contacted, Nazrul Islam, former in-charge at Golden Life Insurance Limited's Lalmonirhat office, told this correspondent over mobile phone that he left the job in 2013.
After leaving the job, he advised the depositors' to contact the head office of the insurance company, Nazrul said.
Lalmonirhat Sadar Upazila Parishad Chairman Kamruzzaman Sujan said, "I will contact the head office of the insurance company and try to resolve the matter as soon as possible."
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