Staff Reporter :
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police has arrested five people for their alleged involvement with laundering Tk 400 crore through digital hundi using Mobile Financial Services (MFS).
On Wednesday night, five people were arrested in separate raids in Dhaka and Chattogram.
The arrestees have been identified as Tasmia Associates owner Nasim Ahmed (62), Agent Sim’s Territory Sales Manager Fazle Rabbi Suman (32) and Md. Kamruzzaman (33) and Jet Robotics Apps Bangladesh representative Zahir Uddin (37) and Khairul Islam alias Pius (34).
6 mobiles, 18 SIM cards, a laptop, 6 modems and cash taka around 28 lakh were recovered from them.
CID chief Mohammad Ali confirmed the matter to reporters in the city’s Malibag on Thursday (March 28).
The CID chief said that in the last three months, around 400 crores of Tk have been hindered from coming to Bangladesh through Jet Robotic Apps.
We have arrested five people using these apps with a fancy technique. The devices have been seized.
He added that the ringleader Shahidul Islam alias Mamun, who had been living in Dubai since 2020, made a Zet Robotic App to perform hundi digitally.
Originally made by Malaysian software developers, such apps can be customised to serve specific purposes.
To facilitate money transactions, this ring collected agent SIMs in collaboration with Tasmia Associates, a bKash MFS distribution house in Chattogram.
These SIMs were then used with laptops and computers through modems, and activated through the Zet Robotic App.
CID chief Muhammad Ali said, not only this jet robotic apps, several such apps are active and running in Bangladesh. We found several such apps racket.
Meanwhile, our intelligence operations are ongoing. This program is going on in Chattogram and Comilla.
