During the raid, a personal automobile was seized, together with a overseas pistol, {a magazine}, 6 rounds of ammunition, a toy pistol, 10kg of pretend snake venom, an album, 2 CDs Tk36,235 in money and 360 Indian rupees
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-10) have arrested 4 folks with Tk60 crore value of pretend cobra snake venom, overseas firearms, and varied instruments used for fraud.
They have been arrested throughout a raid in Dhaka’s Hatirjhil space on Tuesday (23 April) night time.
The arrestees are Enamul Haque, 54, Safiqul Islam, 54, Ershad Ali, 36, and Syed Mohammad Ibrahim Khalilullah, 34.
During the raid, a personal automobile was seized, together with a overseas pistol, {a magazine}, 6 rounds of ammunition, a toy pistol, 10kg of pretend snake venom, an album, 2 CDs Tk36,235 in money and 360 Indian rupees.
RAB claimed that the gang was concerned with a worldwide smuggler.
MJ Sohel, assistant director (Media) of RAB-4, mentioned at the moment afternoon that the fraudsters used a particular sort of glass container to retailer the faux snake venom. The labels on these containers have the names and codes of various international locations. They collected the venom from completely different components of the nation after which smuggled it into Bangladesh from completely different overseas international locations.
They have been dishonest folks and extorting thousands and thousands of taka by promoting it to numerous home and overseas pharmaceutical corporations in addition to smuggling it to neighbouring international locations by way of fraud and smuggling.
Various home and overseas pharmaceutical corporations purchase this snake venom for thousands and thousands of taka. Because it prices many instances extra to legally convey this snake venom from exterior the nation. Buyers simply fall into the entice of fraudsters because of the low value, added the RAB official.
RAB-10 initially confirmed by way of forensic consultants at RAB headquarters that the snake venom saved in glass bottles is faux and doesn’t have any traits of snake venom.
During interrogation, the arrestees informed RAB that they collected the faux snake venom from completely different components of the nation. They then offered it fraudulently to folks at Hatirjheel and different components of the capital. In this manner, the gang was embezzling money from varied folks. They have been handed over to the involved police station for normal instances, the RAB official additionally mentioned.
