Detectives today claimed to have detained two members of a fraud group from Gulistan area of Dhaka.

The detainees Md Shiblu, 38 and Md Sohag, 39, were engaged in fraudulent activities in the capital impersonating them as journalist of a Bangla daily, Shahadat Hossain Suma, additional deputy commissioner of Detective Branch of Police told The Daily Star.

Claiming them as journalists, they have asked government officials including secretaries to send them money through bKash otherwise, they threatened to publish reports implicating the officials with corruption allegations, the DB official said.

Based on the complaint of the newspaper authority, the DB men conducted investigation and came to know that Shiblu and Sohag used to take heroin from one Jahid’s residence in Keraniganj frequently, the DB official said.

The DB men first detained Jahid from his Keraniganj residence on December 5 and following his confessional statement, they conducted a search at Gulistan area and detained the fraudsters this noon, he said.

Later, the due was placed on one-day remand after the DB men produced them before a Dhaka court with three-day remand prayer.