Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan of Police (DMP) has arrested a seven-member gang on charges of cheating US visa aspirants and amassing a huge amount of money.
The arrestees were identified as Md Rezaul Islam, Saiful Islam, Md Azizur Rahman, Md Khairul Kabir, Sadekur Rahman, Md Shahriar Hossain Bikram and Muhammad Abu Bakkar.
A team of DB Cyber and Special Crime (North) Division has arrested the fraudsters who attempt to send people to the United States illegally through visa appointments by sending fake e-mails to US companies showing fake purchase orders of million-dollar military equipment.
The police team conducted a raid in Rampura area in Dhaka on Wednesday and arrested them.
The DMP also sized 20 fake seals, two seal pads, nine passports, four fake ID cards, one pen drive, two mobile phones and fake documents from their possessions.
The US Embassy in Dhaka filed a case with Gulshan police station on Wednesday in this regard.