7 arrested for cheating army jobseekers
Detective Branch of Police arrested seven people from Satkhira and the capital on Saturday and Friday for cheating jobseekers of Bangladesh Army and misleading police.
Following complaints from around 30 victims, the ringleader, Mithun Ghosh alias Apu, 33, impersonating an army major, and his wives, Beauty and Ranu Mondol, were arrested with many fake appointment letters from Satkhira on Friday night.
As per their confessions, Raju, Sumon, Hasan and Jalal Uddin were nabbed from a residential flat at Tilpapara of the city's Khilgaon the next day with computers and printers.
The frauds organised fake army recruitment tests and then sent letters to district police stations using the fake seal of army's Azimpur recruitment office requesting verification of the applicants, said DB Senior Police Commissioner Moshiur Rahman.
Applicants became confident once police came to check their identities and gave the frauds Tk 1.5 to 3 lakh for the posts of sepoys, computer operators and nurses, he added.
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