Libya Massacre Former BMET employee, husband held
The Criminal Investigation Department interrogates a couple over their suspected roles in human trafficking in the Middle East.
The department has also identified at least 75 Bangladeshi expatriates in Libya, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and their local representatives in Bangladesh over the allegation.
Wage Earners’ Welfare Board accounts section official Noorjahan Akhter, a woman in her forties who was a former data entry operator of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, and her husband Abdus Sattar, a manpower exporter, were detained on Wednesday for interrogation over their alleged involvement in the human trafficking allegations, said an official of BMET.
BMET officials alleged that Nur Jahan’s husband secured a licence of manpower export in recent years and the couple was blessed to send migrant workers in Middle Eastern counties.
WEWB officials said that she travelled various manpower recipient countries, including Egypt, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, in recent years without official permission.
They were detained in connection with a case filed with Palton police station by CID’s human trafficking and vice squad sub-inspector Rafikul Islam on Friday.
The couple and 34 others were accused in the case.
The CID’s human trafficking and vice squad officials confirmed on Friday that they were interrogating Nur Jahan and Abdus Sattar.
Meanwhile, the CID named five tour operators — Navira Limited, Flyover Tours and Travels, Sky View Tours and Travel, Bengal Tigers Overseas Ltd and Roosvelt Travel Agency — over the allegation of helping Bangladeshis to be trafficked into Europe through African countries.
CID deputy inspector general Imtiaz Ahmed said that they were identifying the perpetrators in Libya and their connections in Bangladesh, and once the investigation would be completed, they would be sending the list of Libya-based criminals to Interpol for assistance.
He said they would also file case under money laundering act so that the human traffickers’ money flow could be affected.
On Thursday, the CID and the family of a victim have filed two more cases with the Paltan and Banani police stations while law enforcers continued operations to arrest human traffickers involved in trafficking 26 Bangladeshis shot dead in Libya on May 28.
The CID so far arrested seven suspects while Rapid Action Battalion and other units 11 others in connection with at least nine cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka, Madaripur, Faridpur and Kishorganj, among others, over the incident.
The CID also identified five tour operating agencies and their proprietors including political party supporters in Gopalganj and Faridpur in three cases filed by the leading investigation agency.
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