RAB on Tuesday night arrested four persons in the capital’s DOHS area for their suspected involvement in leaking medical admission test question papers.
The four are ringleader Jasim Uddin Bhuiyan, 41, Dr ZMA Salehin alias Shovon, 40, SM Sanwar, 30, and Akhtaruzzaman Khan Tushar, 38.
Jasim was earlier arrested by RAB in 2011 on the same charge.
RAB also seized 13 cheques for a total of Tk12,138,000, Tk38,000 in cash, 88 copies of two question papers and the answers, and admit cards of some students from the possession of the detainees.
Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of media and legal wing of RAB, told a press briefing at RAB headquarters yesterday that the arrestees would first draw up a list of students and would then approach them to offer question papers.
RAB sources said the gang would charge students Tk7-12 lakh for question papers and would usually talk to the parents about the offer.
Of the arrestees, Shovon, who worked as a doctor in Noakhali, stopped practising two years ago and then worked as a tutor in a number of private coaching centres. Sanwar taught at E-Haque Coaching Centre and Tushar was the managing director of a construction firm. Tushar also runs a coaching centre.
The three would contact students and then introduced them to Jasim.
Mufti Mahmud said RAB had found some other names and would investigate if they were involved in leaking question papers.
In reply to a question, he said it was not yet examined if the question papers seized during the operation were the real ones that this year’s prospective medical students would face.
“Police will check that as we have handed the four men over to police.”
The RAB official said further probe would be carried out as it was suspected that members of the body preparing medical admission test question papers might be involved in the wrongdoing.
Over the last 12 months, RAB arrested some 50 persons suspected of leaking questions of admission tests and also government jobs.