DHAKA, March 13, 2026 (BSS) - A court here today sent five people to jail in 
a case lodged over allegations of swindling large sums of money from kidney 
patients by luring them with the promise of advanced treatment in Turkey.

The five accused are-- Nuruzzaman Raju, Mohammad Tarikul, Salman Farsi, Masum 
Billah and Walid Miah.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Raju Ahmed passed the order as police produced 
the accused before the court and pleaded to keep them behind bars till the 
end of probe.

A team of Raid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the five men from the capital 
on March 12. 

According to the case documents, over a hundred Bangladeshi citizens fell 
victim to fraud worth crores of Taka while seeking kidney transplants in 
Turkey through a fake website operated by a former employee of a Turkish 
hospital.

In February, a victim named Nirab Nazrul Likhan entered into a US$23,000 
contract with Nuruzzaman Raju for his mother's kidney transplant. After 
travelling to Turkey with his mother, they were gradually swindled of nearly 
Taka 50 lakh, but the transplant was never performed, and they were sent back 
home.

Losing a substantial amount of money without receiving treatment, Nirab 
Nazrul Likhan filed the case at Shyampur Police Station in Dhaka on March 10 
last.