RAB held 7 on charge of stealing RMG shipment on highway

Staff Reporter :
Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained seven members of a gang along with 26,995 pieces of exportable garments, worth Tk 5 crore from Narayanganj’s Bandar area on Friday.
Lt Col Abdur Rahman, commanding officer of RAB-4, told this at a press briefing on Saturday.
The arrestees have been identified as Md Ripon, 43, Manjur Hossain Jiku, 38, Billal Hossain, 36, Nayeem Islam, 27, Md Akash, 26, Md Sumon, 30, and Farid, 38.
RAB-4 CO said the criminals first build rapport with covered-van drivers who agreed to join the crimes for a hefty amount of money.
In the recent incident, the truck, which was loaded in a Gazipur factory on January 26, was first taken to one Bhai Bhai sawmill.
Billal, Farid and Manjur along with some others then unscrew nuts from a side of the bolt attached to the covered-van’s door to open it without damaging the sealed padlock.
As the arrestees were stealing goods from the cartons, the RAB team arrested them, Abdur Rahman said.