Mohammad Jamil Khan

Divided in multiple groups, they mostly targeted shopping malls in Dhaka -- each team assigned a specific task.

They planned to draw the attention of the Islamic State by carrying out several explosive attacks ahead of the Eid-ul-Adha.

Some policemen took the bomb inside Pallabi Police Station to stage a bomb-recovery and frame someone in a case.

With people mostly staying home and spending more time online due to the ongoing pandemic, a group of criminals are active and swindling crores of taka through duping them on social media.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday formed a three-member committee to investigate the explosion incident inside the capital’s Pallabi Police Station on early Wednesday.

After a sharp fall in crime rate during the first few days of coronavirus pandemic, crimes like theft, robbery and mugging have recently taken an upward turn.

Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim had used the “power of media” to be on good terms with politicians, bureaucrats and law enforcers to build his criminal network, detectives said.

The police have received intelligence that militant outfit “Neo JMB” could try to carry out attacks centring the Eid-ul-Azha.

Along with some Bangladeshis, a group of foreign nationals have formed organised rackets and swindling crores of taka from people through duping them on social media

With people mostly staying home to avoid coronavirus infection, land grabbers are using this opportunity to take over unguarded and empty plots of land in the capital’s Khilgaon.

The meeting was arranged at a government rest house in Sunamganj in January. Three luxury cars were parked outside with a number of security guards on watch. The local upazila nirbahi officer was taking care of food and other amenities.

Before marrying a Bangladeshi man last year, Indian national Ayesa Jannat Mohona had visited Bangladesh three times since 2016.

A middle-aged man from Sylhet’s Companiganj came to the capital’s Uttara at his relative’s house in May last year. He was waiting for a rickshaw in front of Regent Hospital when a car hit him from behind.

Two additional secretaries of the health ministry and two directors of the health directorate allegedly helped JKG Healthcare CEO Ariful Chaudhury to get the contract for collecting Covid-19 test samples.

Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed admitted that he made a fake certificate to show him Covid-19 positive, investigators said yesterday.

Surgeon Sabrina Arif Chaudhury told interrogators that she had warned the health directorate multiple times about corruptions in JKG as soon as she found out what was going on.

For any business deal, Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim used to issue bank cheques with encashment dates that could be two months later.

Alamin Hossain alias Diamond used to call himself a dance teacher and had been running a so-called dance academy in the capital’s Mirpur for the last eight years.

They owned 20 houses, 128 flats and 25 acres of land in Dhaka and nearby areas. Besides, they have 91 accounts in different banks where around Tk 2.8 crore were deposited so far and the current balance of these accounts is around Tk 19 crore.

The syndicate that has been trafficking thousands of Bangladeshi girls for last eight years and forcing them into sex work is also involved in trafficking girls from India and Pakistan. It’s Indian and Pakistani members trafficked the girls to Dubai.