DHAKA, July 4, 2025 (BSS) - The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested three members of an organized fraud gang in separate raids in Mirpur, Pallabi of the capital and Gacha area of Gazipur district for their suspected links to extortion of money from commoners identifying them as senior government officials and top criminals.

The arrestees have been identified as Abdul Mannan Dulal alias Jahangir (55), Md. Nasim Hasan Lavlu (44) and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet (54).

Deputy Commissioner of DB Muhammad Talebur Rahman confirmed media of their arrest.

On receiving information that an organized fraud ring has been threatening and deceiving the common people by impersonating senior government officials and top criminal Shahadat on mobile phones for a long time and extorting cash through bKash and Nagad. 

Following the information, a team of DB Motijheel Division conducted a raid in the Mirpur Madhya Paikpara area of the capital and arrested Md. Abdul Mannan Dulal alias Jahangir on July 1, 2025.

Later, according to the information given by the arrested Jahangir, Md. Nasim Hasan Lavlu of the same gang was arrested from the Pallabi area of the capital and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet from Gacha area of Gazipur district.

Two laptops, a tab, 52 mobile phone sets, 190 SIM cards, eight seals of various important government and private individuals, 20 directories with photos and names, five fake ID cards and cash of Tk 20,000 were seized from their possessions.