Police arrested 11 men of a money swindling gang from Jessore’s Benapole Port police check post area in drives conducted in the past three days to Friday.
The arrested have been swindling money from people bearing passports through falsely promising them different services, said Benapole Port police station Officer-in-Charge Mamun Khan.
On September 8, a family from Chapainawabganj reached Benapole checkpost in order to go to India. During that time, one of the members of the fraud gang said that he will help them to cross over to India without a hassle and took them to an isolated room, said OC Mamun.
Afterwards the gang hijacked Tk3,000 from the family and later let them go. Being informed, police initially detained one member of the gang and subsequently arrested 10 others within three days, OC Mamun added.
The arrested were: Robiul Islam Robi, 35, Shahjahan Ali, 32, Rakibul Hasan Rocky, 30, Shahin Alam, 28, Mofizur Rahman, 35, Yasin, 32, Jashim Uddin, 35, Pavel Sarder, 35, Shafiqul Islam, 33, Lulu Sardar, 34, and Moslem Hossain Rocky, 32, all hailing from Jessore's Sharsha upazila.
