RAB has arrested eight members of an international human trafficking group from different points of the capital.
The arrestees are Motin Miah, 47, Jahangir Alam Babu, 45, Abul Hossain, 81, Nur Islam, 30, Rezaul Karim Sohel, 31, Taiab Ali, 48, Bellal Hossain, 36, and Abul Hossain, 36.
The elite force also recovered 635 passports, 2,265 fake visas of 18 countries, 929 fake visa stickers, 51 Libya visa holograms, 411 Bangladeshi passport visa pages, 12 visa endorsements, 87 endorsement blanks, four fake Nepal tourist visas and visa-making instruments from the arrestees’ possession.
The group mainly targeted the lower class for trafficking, and airport officials in Bangladesh and some other countries might have links to the traffickers, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of the legal and media wing of RAB.
While addressing a briefing at RAB headquarters yesterday, Commander Khan said they arrested Motin and Jahangir on conducting the first drive at Insaf Hotel at North Kamlapur in the capital’s Motijheel area.
He said the traffickers would mostly convince the poor to better their lives with their aid, and by providing fake visas, they would illegally send them abroad.
