Tk 1 lakh charged from each client for fake NID to avail loans
Five users of an organised group who applied to arrange bank loans for clients creating artificial nationwide identity cards were arrested by detective branch of police in Dhaka on Sunday.
Those that didn't return funds borrowing from banks, or didn't pay credit card dues, were the customers of the group. They applied to help make the national identity (NID) cards because of their defaulted clients in order that they could avail clean loans from banks.
Detectives of Lalbagh Division beneath the Dhaka Metropolitan Law enforcement (DMP) arrested five associates of the group conducting a good raid at a set at Dhaka Zoo Street area under Mirpur Unit Police Station on Saturday. Two of the arrested individuals were the data access operators of the Election Commission (EC).
Twelve dual, artificial and duplicate NID cards were also seized from the arrested individuals during the raid.
The arrested were discovered as Sumon Parvez, Majid, Siddhartha Sankar Sutradhar, Anwarul Islam and Abdullah Al Mamun.
Lalbagh Division's deputy commissioner Rajib Al Masud said Sumon Parvez and Majid used to fee Tk 80 thousand to Tk 1 lakh from each customer with the promise of arranging loans. After acquiring loans, the customers used to pay 10 % of the borrowed amount.
Police officials who were involved in investigation said those who secured another NID included different specialist teams including doctors and engineers.
Using the NIDs, the customers borrowed money from Metropolis Bank Limited, UCB Bank Limited, NRB Lender Limited and BRAC Bank Limited. One Md Milton borrowed Tk 3 crore from the North South Street of South Bangla Lender Limited utilizing a second NID card.
After initial inquiry, police learnt that Sumon Parvez used to work at financing verification firm seven to eight years back. The task of the firm included evaluating the clients' eligibility to borrow from banking institutions. Soon after, he left the job and joined hands with the group.
However, arrested Siddhartha Sankar Sutradhar and Anwarul Islam worked as data access operators at Khilgaon and Gulshan offices respectively of the Election Commission. They were appointed through outsourcing by e-Zone Company Limited. That they had usage of the EC database. Using the EC program, they could easily make false or duplicate NID cards. They used to demand Tk 35,000-40,000 to make each NID card.
A case was filed with Mirpur Style Police Station against the arrested people.
