Two held with fake passports
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two persons from the city's Jatrabari with fake passports and passport making equipment early yesterday.
The DB police seized the fake passports, passport making machines, rubber stamps of immigration officials, equipment for making fake visa from the possession of the arrestees---Mohammad Shahjahan, 48, and Abdul Malek, 35.
The arrestees are members of a gang who used to collect passports in different ways and sell them changing passport holder's photo, said the police.
Assistant Commissioner of DB Nasir Uddin Khan said the gang sells those passports to Rohingya refugees who want to go abroad using Bangladeshi passports. Many listed and convicted criminals also buy fake passports from them to flee the country.
Police were interrogating them if there were any official of passport office involved with the gang, he said.
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