Arrest for Forgery
UK hails Bangladesh
The UK government has hailed Bangladesh for arresting eight members of a document forgery gang in Sylhet on June 18.
Officers of Special Branch of police raided a printing company in Sylhet and captured the offenders, a British High Commission release said on Thursday.
Huge numbers of stolen Bangladeshi and British passports, counterfeit UK visas and over 150 immigration stamps of several countries including the UK were seized.
A joint effort between the UK Border Agency, Bangladesh Police and the US Embassy in Dhaka made the arrests possible.
It says, police were acting on intelligence which originated from a UK Border Agency officer after detecting a forged visa. The law enforcers are probing the incident.
“We will not tolerate abuse of the UK's immigration controls and this operation shows what we can achieve through close and effective cooperation with the Bangladesh authorities and other countries to tackle this fraud," said Chris Dix, regional director of UK Border Agency.
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