Before Covid-19 and the Russia Ukraine war, Ripon Engineering Workshop, a light engineering factory in Jashore, would sell up to 30 units of agricultural machinery to buyers in neighbouring India every month.
‘Scamming jobseekers’: Five arrested in Dhaka Star Online Report Star Online Report
Detectives claimed to have arrested five members of a fraud gang from Dhaka s Kamalapur area on charge of deceiving people, luring them with jobs.
They are: Ashraful Islam Babu (39), Abdul Karim (60), Fazlur Rahman (44), Shamsul Alam Majumder (50) and Shirina Akter (30).
A team of detectives made the arrest from a house yesterday evening, hours after a victim filed a case with Uttara Paschim Police Station in this regard, said Badruzzaman Zillu, additional deputy commissioner (DB Uttara Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
The gang used to rent offices in different areas in the city and published job circulars in newspapers to attract unemployed persons, he told The Daily Star.