Gafargaon (Mymensingh) Correspondent :
Police have arrested Mamunur Rashid Fattah, allegedly mastermind of a fraud ring convicted in a cheque forgery case in Gafargaon, Mymensingh. On Monday morning, ASI Mamun of Gafargaon Police Station along with a team arrested the absconding fraudster from his house in Shantibag, Dhaka.
Later, the accused was brought to Gafargaon Police Station. Police and victims said that, Mamunur Rashid Fattah, who was the Managing Director of Probasi Kalyan Bank and currently the MD of Janata Bank during the previous Awami League government, embezzled crores of taka from people by impersonating his own brother-in-law, Mujibur Rahman. He would take a large sum of money from job seekers by giving fake employment letters in the name of jobs, change his mobile phone number and residence and go into hiding.
Even though he informed his family members, none of them wanted to take responsibility for this misdeed. Although some job seekers executed contracts and paid money, in most cases the victims would transact money by seeing the fraudster Mamunur Rashid alias Fattah’s brother-in-law.
In 2021, a victim filed a case in the Mymensingh Money Loan Court for taking money against a check in the name of providing a job in the name of Mamunur Rashid Fattah. The court fined the missing accused Fattah Tk 5 lakh and sentenced him to one year in prison in 2023 in the related check forgery case. After being absconding for a long time, the police arrested him on Monday with the help of technology.
In this regard, the plaintiff in the case, Nahid Alam, said, “I got justice from the court. Although the police arrested the fraudster, Fattah’s helpers remained outside in some way.
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The cousin of another victim, Mamunur Rashid Fattah, Sheikh Alim Reza Apel, said, Fattah took seven lakh taka from me, saying that he would give me a job in UCB Bank. And in 2019, he gave me an appointment card signed by the MD of UCB Bank. When I tried to join, various dramas started. And when I asked for money, Fattah’s elder sister Happy and her family members started making false cases and threats. Even though I went ahead with the legal process, Fattah and her family used their power to influence the PBI report. I want his punishment and my money back.
The victims also said, Fattah claims himself as an online celebrity in the SSC 97/99 batch. He has perfected his fraud skills by finding investors in entrepreneurs and various companies. His job is to find various investors including Quick Express fraud and to extort money from new
entrepreneurs by cheating them. Besides, he used to extort money from people by promising them jobs in banks and insurance companies at attractive salaries by claiming to be a high-ranking official.
Gafargaon Police Station OC Muhammad Shibirul Islam said that the accused was absconding after being sentenced in the money lending court. Police arrested him from Dhaka on Monday and sent him to Mymensingh jail through the court.
