The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five members of a gang, who helped in getting bank loans by making fake national identity cards (NID), from the city’s Mirpur area.
The arrested are Md Sumon Parvez, 40, Md Majid, 42, Siddharth Shankar Sutradhar, 32, Md Anwarul Islam, 26, and Md Abdullah Al Mamun, 41. Twelve dual, fake, and duplicate NID cards were recovered from their possessions.
Tipped off, an Organized Crime and Vehicle Theft Prevention Team under then DB (Lalbagh Division) conducted a drive in the D-Block area of Mirpur Zoo Road at 7:45pm on Saturday and arrested the five syndicate members.
Deputy Commissioner (media) Walid Hossain said Sumon and Majid used to help loan defaulters to apply for loan using fake NIDs and they usually take Tk80,000-Tk1 lakh from each of them for making a fake NID card.
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Besides, they also asked their clients to pay 10% of the total loan after sanction of the loan amount from banks. If they agreed, they first make a fake NID card.
Their other accomplices — Siddhartha Shankar Sutradhar and Md Anwarul Islam used to make fake identity cards. They used to charge Tk35,000-
Tk40,000 for each fake NID card, he said.
As Siddharth Shankar Sutradhar and Anwarul Islam worked as data entry operators in Khilgaon and Gulshan offices Gulshan offices under the Election Commission's
outsourcing company e-zone companies, they could easily create fake NID cards using the software of the Election Commission office, Walid Hossain
added.
A case was filed against them with Mirpur Model police station.
