Four fake ACC officials held in city

Staff Reporter :

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested four members of a organised gang who looted billions of Taka from people impersonifying themselves as officials of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The accused persons have been identified as Md Selim alias Tanvir Islam alias Shafikur Rahman, Md Sohagh Patwari, Abdul Hai Sohagh and Md Azmir Hossain. They were arrested in separate raids conducted across the capital on August 14. During the drives, police seized seven mobile phones, 10 SIM cards, seven fake ID cards of ACC, 12 investigation reports and three notebooks.
Khondkar Nurunnabi, joint commissioner (cyber and special crime and DB North) confirmed this to the media in the DMP media centre on Thursday noon.
DB officials said that the frauds used to extort Taka 80,000 to 3,00,000 from each target and summoned them in front of ACC Headquarters to make them believe that they are real officials of anti-graft body.
He said, teams of DB Lalbagh Zone conducted separate raids in Jatrabari, Mugda and Airport areas on August 14 and detained them.
Earlier on August 13, “ACC deputy director Syed Nazrul Islam filed a case in this regard with Ramna Police Station.