Three
Libyans and one Bangladeshi arrested by DB men along with seized money
and other materials produced before the media at Dhaka Metropolitan
Police office on Wednesday.
Detective
Branch (DB) of Police arrested three Libyan nationals and a Bangladeshi
citizen from a hotel in the capital's Gulshan area early Wednesday and
seized huge amount of currency worth Tk 1.60 crore from their
possession.Acting on a tip-off that some Libyan people are collecting money and passport in the name of sending them to Libya, a team of DB police conducted a raid at Lakeshore Hotel around 2:00am and arrested them, said a press release of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday.
Mohammad Shahidullah, DB (North) additional deputy commissioner, and Mohammad Tarek Bin Rashid, senior assistant police commissioner of team No 8, jointly led the drive.
The Libyan citizens are Samir Ahmed Omar Fardg, 36, Amara Mahmud Amara, 23, and Maburk Fardg Saylem while the Bangladeshi citizen is Priyanka Zaman, 22.
During a primary investigation, the arrestees admitted that they had been laundering money abroad for long through collecting money and passports from Bangladeshi people in the name of manpower export to Libya without permission of Bangladesh government.
Police also seized 684 Bangladeshi passports, Tk 10.66 lakh, 1.81 lakh US dollar, 8 Libyan dinar, 2 Qatari riyal, seven mobile phone sets, one laptop, two iPads, one BlackBerry Notepad, two bottles of foreign liquor, two MasterCard and seven Identity cards from their possession.
The arrestees, however, failed to show their passports before the law enforcers, the press release added.
A case was underway in this regard.
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