4 held with 81 fake passports in capital
Four members of a passport counterfeiting gang along with 81 fake passports were caught when Detective Branch (DB) of police launched a drive in the capital's Jatrabari on Saturday.
The arrestees were Md Firoz Hossain, 30, Md Rajib, 25, Md Yunus Mallik, 30, and Md Sumon, 22.
Al-Beli Afifa, senior assistant commissioner of DB police, said they arrested the gang members from Dakkhinpara in Matuail around 5:30pm on Saturday.
Using information from the arrestees during primary interrogation, detectives recovered fake passports from the house of Firoz in Matuail, she said.
They also recovered some torn pages of passports that contained immigration seals and visas.
"The gang used to collect passports of returned expatriates who were not interested to go back again. To collect those, they used various techniques including cheating and theft," Afifa said.
They changed the photographs of the passports, replacing the photo of the original passport bearer with that of the person interested to go abroad illegally, she said.
The gang maintained liaison with the brokers at passport offices and supplied fake passports to job seekers, she added.
A case was filed with Jatrabari Police Station in this regard.
In another drive, DB police arrested three female pickpockets from the city's Banani Supermarket area on Saturday.
Police also recovered few cell phones and passports from their possessions.
The arrestees were Monwara Begum, Lili and Ripa.
Police said the trio blended with the crowd of shoppers and stole women's bags.
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