Racket of fake certificate sellers caught
Staff Reporter :
The Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested four members of a racket implicated in making forged certificates and mark sheets of various renowned universities in Dhaka during separate drives in Lalbagh and Rampura area of the capital on Thursday.
The arrestees were engineer Ziaur Rahman, his wife Nurunnahar Mitu, diploma engineer Yasin Ali and director of Darul Ihsan University Bulbul Ahmed Bipu.
In addition, BD also seized a stack of fake certificates, mark sheets and the equipment used for making the certificates from the spot.
DB told the media that the racket used to make fake certificates and mark sheets in a house and sell them in exchange of several lakhs taka.
The racket has already sold several thousand fake certificates, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Lalbagh Division of DB Mashiur Rahman told the media on Friday.
“The racket had been selling certificates and marksheets for secondary, higher secondary, graduation and post graduation level in the name of different education boards and private universities for a long time. After investigation, we conducted drive to raid the racket and finally they were arrested at Rampura,” he said.
The arrestees in their preliminary interrogation said that they used to prepare mark sheets and certificates with the original paper provided by the board and university. They are then included online through officials, so that the authenticity is found in the online verification, DB said.
“Following the information given by Ziaur and Mitu, diploma engineer Yasin Ali and director of Darul Ihsan University Bulbul Ahmed Bipu were arrested in a raid conducted at a house under Lalbagh police station’s Baraghat mosque area on Friday morning,” Mashiur Rahman said.
At that time, expensive laptops, desktops, printers along with blank mark sheets and certificates of different universities were also seized from that house, he added.
He further said that DB has found the involvement of several concerned individuals of the universities and education boards engaged in the fake certificate sale.
However, legal action is being taken against these fraudsters who earned crores of taka illegally by selling the forged certificates.
