DHAKA, June 18, 2025 (BSS) - The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) 
today arrested the mastermind of a fraud gang that forged the signatures of 
the concerned authorities of the Ministry of Shipping to evade store rent and 
unloaded valuable equipment imported from Chattogram port. 

The detainee has been identified as Md. Touhidul Islam Shuvo (30), son of Md. 
Moazzem Hossain and Farida Yasmin, hailed from Paschim Ujanchar, Baliadanga, 
Thana-Goalando in Rajbari district. 

Shuvo was arrested from Sobhanbagh area of Dhaka today, said a CID press 
release. 

With him, the CID has so far arrested five persons in connection with the 
fraudulence. 

Shuvo used to introduce himself as a major of the military, the release said. 

During his arrest, a fake identity card of a major with military uniform, 
several visiting cards of majors, eight mobile phones, 10 SIM cards, cheque 
books of various banks and one laptop were seized from his possession, it 
also said. 

The CID said that Bashundhara Multi Steel Company Limited imported valuable 
equipment in 139 containers brought at different times under special 
facilities for setting up factories in the Mirsharai Economic Zone, but due 
to non-discharge on time, Bashundhara Company owed about 92 crores in store 
rent to the Chattogram Port Authority. 

In view of this, Bashundhara Multi Steel Company Limited applied to the 
Ministry of Shipping for a waiver of the store rent. 

While the matter was under consideration by the ministry, Faizur Rahman, 
Senior Manager of Bashundhara Group of Companies, received a store rent 
waiver letter from another accused and a member of the fraud ring, Abu Hanifa 
Hanafi and Aminul Islam Amin. 

When the Chattogram Port Authority informed the Ministry of Shipping about 
the store rent waiver letter, the Ministry of Shipping informed the 
Chittagong Port Authority that the letter was fake.

After the Chattogram Port Authority confirmed the matter of the fake store 
rent waiver letter, the Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) registered a 
case (Case No.-07, Date- 15/05/2025) under sections 420/468/471/109 of the 
Penal Code. 

After the case was registered, the investigation was entrusted to the CID 
Chattogram District and Metro. 

Following a case was registered by the Chattogram Port Authority, the CID 
earlier arrested Md. Fayezur Rahman (42), Md. Abu Hanifa Hanafi (33), Md. 
Aminul Islam Amin (41), Md. Roni Raj Hossain (29) of the said fraud ring at 
different times through information technology analysis and secret sources. 

Among them, Mohammad Abu Hanifa and Aminul Islam have given confessional 
statement before the court under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.