Police nabbed four members of a fraudster gang, including its head, with currencies of different countries from a residential hotel in Chittagong city’s Station Road area yesterday afternoon.
The arrestees, Shakir Akhter, 28, gang leader, Abu Bakar Siddique, 24, Morsheda Akhter Mukta, 23, and Suruj Jamal Mia, 45, were involved in a gang which used to bag huge money in exchange of Bangladeshi currency and make fool to common people, said AKM Mohiuddin Selim, officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station.
On receiving information, a team from Kotwali police station nabbed the four from Relax Inn around 1:30pm with some notes of different countries, including Sri Lanka, Brazil, Oman, Dubai, Kuwait and Myanmar, he said.
Sub-Inspector Kazi Masud Ibn Anwar 0f Kotwali police station told the Dhaka Tribune that the members of the gang, dividing into sep arate groups, using CNG-run auto-rickshaws, roaming around their respective areas and deceive people by selling foreign currencies in exchange of taka.
The group, comprising five members, generally target passerby, show some foreign currencies and propose to their targeted person to purchase the currency in a lower rate from bank expressing the deceivers’ patience.
Sometimes, they board the target into CNG and snatch all valuables from him or her, said the SI, who led the drive.
“We nabbed a group of the gang and we are conducting drives to nab the entire gang,” he said.
A case was lodged with Kotwali police station in this connection.
