3 'human traffickers' held in Dhaka

Police last night detained three suspected members of an international human trafficking gang from different parts of the capital including Uttara, Banani and old part of Dhaka.

The detainees – Al Azad, 27, Firoz Ahmed, 28, and Krishna Gopal Dey, 38, – are active members of an international human trafficking gang, Abdullah Hil Baki, special superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), told the media.

Tipped-off, a CID team led by Senior Police Supper (organised crime) Mahbubul Alam conducted drives at Uttara, Banani and Tantibazar area of Dhaka and detained them, Baki said at a press briefing held at the CID headquarters this morning.

The team also recovered around Tk 15 lakh, several mobile phone sets and some fake application forms seeking refugee status in different countries, he added.

During primary interrogation, the detainees confessed that several people from India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and a Romania born Australian citizen are involved in the human trafficking gang, Baki claimed.

Luring people of lucrative jobs abroad, the gang publishes advertisements on different online media and collects huge amount of money, Baki said quoting the detainees.

As part of their plot, they first take the jobseekers to Indonesia with hopes that they [jobseekers] will be sent to New Zealand, Baki said.