3 manpower agency officials arrested

By Staff Correspondent
23 May 2007, 18:00 PM
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested three managing partners of a manpower agency with forged visas and fake passports from Motijheel in the city on Tuesday, says a Rab press release yesterday.

Following allegations made by the cheated fortune seekers, a team of Rab-3 arrested Babul Rana, Gias Uddin and Idris Miah, three managing partners of a manpower agency named "Al ZamZam International" from their agency office at Dilkusha at 1:00pm.

According to the press release, the arrestees have taken a total of Tk 1.34 crore from 50 job seekers since 2004 promising them to send Fiji.

Of the three, Rana took all the money of which Tk 85 lakh were given to Alim Khan, an expatriate in Fiji who reportedly gave them visa from Fiji.

Rana has gone to Fiji ten times spending Tk 20 lakh and deposited foreign currency worth Tk 85 lakh in a bank in Fiji illegally.

The press release said Rana has also been harassing the fortune seekers by issuing fake bank cheques to them when they demanded payback of their money.