The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of police on Friday arrested the leader of a gang that scam people promising high-salaried jobs at embassies and different organizations.
The arrestee Robi Paul Gomez, 53, hails from Natore district.
A special team of CID of Dhaka Metro (South) made the arrest at 6:30am after conducting a drive at Habiganj district and Nurer Chala area under capital’s Bhatara police station, said CID in a press briefing.
A case was filed in this regard at Bhatara police station following the complaint lodged by a victim of the job scam named Hashem Mia.
According to CID, in 2019, Robi and his associates opened an office in Nurerchala area named RS Enterprise and started publishing lucrative job notices on Facebook and other media.
They took Tk1, 30,000 from victim Hashem promising to give him a job at Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia.
They cheated on some 30 to 40 more people and took a huge amount of money. They won their trust by providing a bank cheque of the company, said CID.
Later, Robi shut his office without making any arrangements to give them jobs and fled.
CID said efforts are on to arrest the other members of the gang.