6 Rohingya refugees held with Bangladeshi passports
Police arrested six Rohingya refugees along with a Bangladeshi at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday while they were trying to catch a flight to Saudi Arabia with forged Bangladeshi passports.
The arrestees Mujibul Haque, Milon Mia, Ahmad Ali, Abbas Ali, Alamgir Hossain and Anwar, all in their early 20s, were caught while trying to pass through the airport immigration around 8:30pm.
Raisul, a Bangladeshi, was arrested for helping the Rohingyas, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Armed Police Battalion (APBn), Selim Khan told The Daily Star.
The forgery was done by replacing photos in old passports, he said, adding, six Nepali passports were also recovered from their possession.
“The arrestees couldn't speak Bangla during the interrogation and admitted that they were Rohingya refugees," Selim Khan said.
Quoting the detainees, the ASP said that a travel agency located at the capital's Fakirapool charged them Tk 3,00,000 each for the forged passports.
A case will be filed soon in this connection, he said.
Earlier on Friday, police arrested 18 others from the airport while they were trying to pass through the immigration with fake visas on their passports.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Nazrul Islam Mollah said they had information on two travel agencies involved in such activities.
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