Neo JMB Financier: He got passport with fake info

A Rab investigation has found that the “Neo JMB financier”, who allegedly jumped to his death from a building during a raid by the elite force on October 8, got his passport using fake name and address.

“Following proper verification, we have learnt that the passport was issued in the name of one Abdur Rahman. But the name and other information [on the passport] were fake,” Rab-4 Commanding Officer (CO) Khandaker Lutful Kabir told The Daily Star yesterday.

As per rules, a passport office issues an individual's passport only after getting police report that the individual, and his addresses and other information provided for the passport are genuine.

However, there are allegations that police, in many cases, take bribe and submit the report without proper verifications.

Sources said the policeman who submitted the report for the passport of the alleged militant would face legal actions.

The “Neo JMB financier” jumped off a five-storey building while trying to flee during the raid in Ashulia of Savar on the outskirts of the capital, according to the elite force. 

His wife Shanaz alias Ruma, their two sons and a daughter were detained.

Rab claimed that they recovered the passport and a driving licence from his flat. His name was mentioned as Abdur Rahman in the documents.

In the machine readable passport, issued on September 10, 2014, the “militant” mentioned his father's name as Abdullah and his permanent address in Kushkhali of Satkhira sadar.

However, after initial investigation, Satkhira police found that the names and address were fake. That prompted Rab to contact the Department of Immigration and Passports in Dhaka and verify the information, said the Rab-4 CO Lutful Kabir.

He said they also communicated with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and found that a driving licence was indeed issued in the name of Abdur Rahman. The address there was also fake.

The home ministry yesterday gave Rab the responsibility to investigate a case filed over the raid on the Ashulia building.

“We've taken charge of the case and will take the arrestees in our custody to glean information from them,” the Rab CO said.

BODY HANDED OVER TO FAMILY

Mohiuddin Faruque, commander of Crime Prevention Company-3 of Rab-12, yesterday said the body of “militant” Ahsan Habib Shuvo was handed over to his father Altaf Hossain from Tangail Medical College morgue on Wednesday noon.

Ahsan, 25, along with another alleged militant, was killed during another Rab raid on a militant den in Tangail town on October 8.

Ahsan was a third-year student of English department at Rajshahi University. He had gone missing on July 15 last year. Days after Ahsan went traceless from a student mess in Boalia area, his father who hails from Raninagar in Naogaon filed a General Diary (GD) with Boalia Police Station.

The identity of the other militant could not be known. His body was kept at the same hospital.

The Rab official also said the investigation of the case was handed over to the elite force yesterday, reports our Tangail correspondent.

MILITANTS' IDENTITY

Five out of the nine suspected militants who were killed in separate raids in Gazipur on October 8 were yet to be identified.

Earlier, police disclosed the identities of three out of the seven “militants” killed in Patartek while Rab revealed identity of a “militant” who was killed along with another in Lebu Bagan area of Gazipur.