The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two people on charge of embezzling money through trading confidential information of National Identity Card, birth registration certificate and Covid vaccination card.
The arrested were data entry operators of Election Commission Md Jamal Uddin and Liton Mollah.
Based on secret information, two separate teams of the Intelligence Analysis Division of the CTTC unit conducted raids and arrested Liton Mollah from Bagerhat and Jamal Uddin from Pabna on Tuesday.
Briefing reporters at DMP media center on Thursday, additional commissioner of the DMP and also chief of the CTTC unit Md Asaduzzaman said that CTTC detected forgery by the gangsters while monitoring social media.
Their movements were monitored for a long time and their locations were identified before the arrests. After the arrest, the interrogation revealed that Md Jamal Uddin is a data entry operator in the Election Commission. With his help Liton Mollah used to collect NID-related information from Election Commission servers, he said.
The CTTC unit chief said that the arrested persons used to provide fake NID, copy of lost NID, correction of NID information, digital copies of birth registration and correction of name, Covid vaccination card and copy of his TIN certificate in exchange of money.
During preliminary interrogation, the arrested persons admitted to the police that they had given NID and other certificates online in exchange for money.
He also said that in exchange for such work, they used to take up to Tk 3,000 according to the importance of the work. They used to collect customers through WhatsApp groups. According to the demand of the customer, Liton, who was arrested, created these fake certificates through his website and gave them to the customers and received money through mobile banking. In this way, they admitted the making crores of rupees.
A case was registered against the arrested with the Ramna police station in the capital. They are currently in police custody on court orders. The investigation into the incident is continuing.