Police have found two Rohingyas among 150 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued on May 21 by the Myanmar Navy.
Hamid Hossain, 32, is one of the traffickers.
Police did not disclose the other’s name, but ensured his identity as Rohingya.
Officer-in-Charge Shaymol Kumar Nath of Cox’s Bazar police station disclosed the information to Dhaka Tribune.
The victims were kept under police custody at Cox’s Bazar Cultural Centre, said police.
After daylong interrogation on Tuesday, police have discovered the two Rohingya human traffickers out of the 150, said the police official.
“We are trying to get more information about human traffickers and the interrogation will continue.”
“Two of them are related with human trafficking, and Hamid Hossain has been sent to Cox’s Bazar police station.”
Police bared journalists while they were trying to speak with the victims, saying it could hamper the interrogation.
Six buses carrying the trafficking victims reached Bandarban district from Myanmar around 3pm on Monday.
Earlier in the day, Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) handed over the trafficking victims to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on the No Man’s Land, following a three-and-a-half-hour flag meeting between BGB and Myanmar Immigration and Registration Department.
On May 21, Myanmar’s navy brought ashore 200 migrants – calling them Bangladeshis – found in a boat carrying 208 people off its coast.
Southeast Asia's migrant scandal began to unfurl at the start of May after a Thai crackdown on people smuggling threw the multi-million dollar industry into disarray.
It led gangmasters to abandon their victims on land and at sea, and images of stick-thin, dazed migrants trapped on boats or stumbling onto shores and out of forests shocked the world, heaping pressure on Southeast Asian nations to act.
The majority of the migrants are Rohinyga Muslims, who are pariahs in Myanmar's Buddhist-majority western Rakhine State. Some of them are also from Bangladesh.
Acknowledging it, the government of Bangladesh took immediate steps and expressed its readiness to take back all its trafficked victims stranded in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia within a month.