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BITCOIN-FRAUD-GANG-HELD
12 including Bitcoin business mastermind arrested
DHAKA, May 3, 2021 (BSS) – Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has
arrested 12 people, including Ismail Hossain Sumon alias Coin Sumon,
on charges of money laundering and online fraud in Bangladesh in the
name of illegal Bitcoin business.
The other arrested were Abul Bashar Rubel, 28, Arman Piyas, 31,
Raihan Alam Siddiqui, 28, Mohammad Jobayer, 18, Mehedi Hasan Rahat,
24, Mehedi Hasan, 19, Rakibul Hasan, 23, Rakibul Islam, 22, Solaiman
Islam, 21, Mohammad Zakaria, 18 and Arafat Hossain, 22.
During the operation, 29 desktop computers, 3 laptops, 15 mobile
phones, a tablet phone and various documents were seized from them.
Commander Khandaker Al Moin, Director (Law and Media Branch) of RAB
Headquarters, stated these at a press conference held at RAB Media
Center in city’s Karwan Bazar in the afternoon.
According to the official, a team of RAB-1 conducted an operation
in North Badda area of the capital around 2.30 pm on Sunday.
From there, the RAB-1 team members arrested 12 people, including
Sumon and seized the materials used in various fraudulent activities.
“Ismail Hossain Sumon alias Coin Sumon, the leader of the gang,
started a children’s toy and clothes business in a small shop in 2013
and later set up an outsourcing marketing company called ‘Basic Bizz
Marketing’ to carry on his illegal Bitcoin business behind that,” the
official added.
RAB sources said Sumon has built various business establishments
and flats, plots, super shops etc by earning illegal money through
Bitcoin scamming.
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