Fifty-one-year-old Amir Hossain has been working in a meals store reverse Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport for the final 15 years. However beneath the facade of a quick meals employee, he orchestrated the robberies of greater than 300 migrant staff because the chief of a gang based mostly within the airport space, in keeping with the Speedy Motion Battalion.
Amir is implicated in over 15 instances and has been arrested twice in 2022, most not too long ago with three others on fees of robbing a Kuwait-based migrant employee in September, the RAB mentioned on Sunday, stories bdnews24.com.
The opposite arrestees are 48-year-old Liton Mia, a microbus driver, 35-year-old Abu Bakkar Siddique, a jewelry store proprietor, and 40-year-old Zakir Hossain, a printing press employee.
Members of the gang beguiled their unsuspecting victims within the guise of execs from varied fields earlier than knocking them out unconscious and robbing them, mentioned Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of the RAB’s media wing.
The gang has round 10 members, a lot of whom have been put behind bars, however they resumed their prison actions after they have been launched, in keeping with him.
They primarily focused migrants who didn’t have any family members come decide them up from the airport.
On Sept 2, the gang robbed a migrant employee who was planning to go to Bogura from the airport after returning residence from Kuwait early within the morning.
Because the migrant ready to go away the capital, one among Amir’s cohorts approached him and shortly struck up rapport with him. Then, Amir arrived on the scene with a passport and baggage in hand.
To be able to achieve the migrant’s belief, he handed himself off as a returnee from Kuwait and informed him that he, too, was headed to Bogura, though he’s really a local of Barishal. Amir even took out some Kuwaiti foreign money from his pocket to bolster his credibility.
He additionally launched a few of his different associates as shut family members to the migrant. They then claimed to have an additional bus ticket to Bogura, explaining that one among their family members who was imagined to journey with them had determined to remain again, and supplied it to the migrant.
When the expatriate took up their supply, they went to Uttara’s Azampur Bus Stand and boarded a Bogura-bound bus.
Amir and the expatriate sat subsequent to one another. In the meantime, one of many different arrestees, Liton, took a seat near them. Because the bus began shifting, Amir handed some biscuits, laced with anaesthetics, to the expatriate, who fell unconscious after having them.
Amir subsequently plucked the bus’ baggage tag out of his pocket. He then bought off the bus with Liton in Sirajganj and made off with the migrant’s baggage.
Nevertheless, the bus supervisor discovered the ruse and contacted the sufferer’s family members.
In response to the RAB, the baggage contained about eight Bhori of gold ornaments and different helpful objects. The gold ornaments have been bought to Abu Bakkar, who owns a jewelry store in Shyampur.
Abu Bakkar paid Amir Tk 445,000, the worth of 6.5 Bhori, for the ornaments. Amir later gave Liton Tk 100,000 and Tk 50,000 to Zakir and one other one among his associates, whereas maintaining the remainder of the cash for himself.
Following Abu Bakkar’s arrest, among the stolen gold was recovered from him in a molten state, mentioned Moin. Amir had additionally bought stolen objects to Abu Bakkar on different events previously.
Zakir and one other man acted as his accomplices. They might every obtain a minimize from Amir.
Amir pounced on new victims as soon as each three or 4 days, in keeping with the RAB. He had robbed a Saudi Arabia-based migrant employee utilizing the identical tactic in January and one other in April.
Though he has by no means travelled overseas, Amir all the time carried a passport and baggage with him every time he went to the airport. Stickers and labels have been additionally hooked up to his baggage to make it appear as if he had simply returned from abroad.
In the meantime, Liton would cling across the airport space along with his microbus, providing to take passengers to totally different locations, together with the nation’s north.
He would then loot travellers by administering anaesthetics to them on the best way to their locations. Liton has additionally been arrested a number of instances.
Addressing their repeated arrests and subsequent return to committing crimes, Moin mentioned Amir has 15 instances associated to dishonest and theft towards him. However he managed to safe bail in these instances.