Dhaka: A Dhaka court today ordered two alleged fraudsters to jail on charges of taking money in exchange for a job offer. Alleged members of the ring, Julhas Uddin, 39, and Prahorke, 28, were accused of cheating a person named Mehedi Haque Lion, 39, on social media and extracting Taka 94.19 lakh from him with the assurance of providing a job.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, police arrested the two from Kishoreganj on Thursday night following a complaint filed by the victim at Paltan Thana in the city on January 3 of this year. The authorities presented the accused before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate today, seeking a 10-day remand.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ariful Islam ordered them to be sent to jail and scheduled a hearing on the remand petition for September 22. The accused had approached the victim via a Telegram account on August 24 last year, offering a job in a jewelry company.
Mehedi, upon showing interest in the job, visited the institution's website, where the fraudsters allegedly used a phishing link to redirect him to a fake website. The fraud ring employed various tactics to deceive the complainant and misappropriate the money, as detailed in the case diary.