Fraud gang ‘meddles with commission server’

Fraud gang ‘meddles with commission server’

Ahmed Zayeef .Dhaka |
 Update: 12:17, May 15, 2019


The photographs in 2 National Identity Cards (NIDs) are of the identical person, however the names, the parents’ names, the dates of birth and therefore the addresses are totally different. nonetheless as per the foundations of the commission, each of the identity cards are legitimate. the person uses one amongst the cards for private use and therefore the different for dubious functions.

In an investigation into 2 cases of loan fraud, national capital Metropolitan Police (DMP) has known 3 such persons UN agency have quite one ‘legal’ NID.

These fraudsters were known as Abul Kalam Azad, Abdul Latif Belarusian monetary unit and Md Shihab Uddin. They used their pretend NIDs to require loans of Tk eleven million from 2 branches of Dutch Bangla Bank restricted (DBBL) and Prime Bank restricted (PBL) within the capital town.

All the documents, as well as a trade license wont to get the loans, were supported these pretend NIDs.

Persons committed the investigation aforesaid there have been similar cases of NID fraudulence within the past, however this case was distinctive.

This issue poses as a heavy threat to the national security, they said, adding that this was the primary time they found one person with 2 totally different ‘legal’ NIDs.

DMP’s intelligence unit (north) is work the cases of loan misappropriation from DBBL and PBL.

The DMP wing’s deputy commissioner Moshiur Rahman told ProthomAlo that one person cannot have quite one NID.

During associate interrogation, he added, the frauds confessed that that they had bribed some persons UN agency work with the EC’s NID servers. They spent between Tk three hundred,000 and Tk 350,000 for one pretend NID.

“One will create 2 passports, 2 driving licenses victimization such NIDs. it's exposing USA to insecurity,” Moshiur Rahman aforesaid.

The folks coupled to the investigation conjointly aforesaid on five December 2018, Abul Kalam Azad, Abdul Latif Belarusian monetary unit and Md Shihab Uddin managed to induce a Tk half-dozen million loan from Dutch-Bangla Bank’s New Market branch and Tk five million from the Mahakhali branch of Prime Bank.

They 1st rented associate workplace for ‘Cotton Zone’ at Elephant Road. Later, with the assistance of Shihab Uddin, they notice someone, Abdul Alim, UN agency had fifty decimals land in Bashundhara dominion. They created a photocopy of his land deed. Shihab Uddin then created a pretend NID in Abdul Alim’s name.

Intelligence officers aforesaid a particular Muhammad Ali was created warranter against the loan at the DBBL. Muhammad Ali then used his pretend NID as Md Monsur Ali to pursue the loan.

The officers conjointly aforesaid a particular Shamsuddin Azad was created warranter for PBL’s loan and also used his pretend NID as Harunur Rashid.

Abul Kalam Azad introduced them to the international organization workplace for the pretend NIDs, the intelligence officers extra.

They aforesaid Abul Kalam Azad, Shihab Uddin and Abdul Latif were masterminds behind the scam.

Shihab and Latif have already created a cubicle statements during this regards.

Abul Kalam could be a former worker of town Bank. He was ravaged, when that he began running a grocery look. He later shifted to the fabric business and resorted to fraud. he's from Harirampur upazila of Manikganj district. In Dhaka, he wont to sleep in Baridhara. Police are currently trying to find him to position him below arrest.

NID sub-division director general brigadier Saidul Islam on Friday told Prothom Alo that the matter was strange. If someone tries to create quite one NID, a minimum of the finger prints ought to be caught out.

He conjointly aforesaid the matter are going to be investigated.

“Disciplinary action was taken against others with such scams within the past,” he added.

*This report, originally revealed in Prothom Alo print edition, has been rewritten in English by Toriqul Islam