Tk11 crore robbery: Mastermind among 3 arrested with Tk58 lakh

Staff Reporter

Published: March 14, 2023, 06:01 PM

Tk11 crore robbery: Mastermind among 3 arrested with Tk58 lakh

Three more suspects, including the mastermind, have been arrested by a team of Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) from Dhaka and Netrakona districts in connection with the robbery of Tk 11.25 crore of a bank from a private security agency's vehicle in the Turag neighborhood of Uttara in the capital.

Also, law enforcers recovered Tk 58.07 lakh from their possession.

The arrestees are Mohammad Hridoy, 21, Mohammad Milon Mia, 29 and Akash, the mastermind of the robbery incident.

According to a press release from DMP deputy commissioner of police (media and public relations), Faruk Hossain, the intelligence team of the DMP conducted separate drives in the Karail slum of Banani area in the capital and Durgapur upazila of Netrakona district after receiving a tip and arrested the culprits.

With this, 11 people have been arrested and Tk 7.1 crore recovered so far.

The handout continued, "During questioning, it was discovered that several people divided into different groups conducted the robbery and that Akash and Sohel Rana, among the robbers, made the plot of the occurrence."

 

The now-wanted Sohel Rana drove for Money Plant Link Limited, a private security company, and was well aware of the movement of the car.

Robbers looted cash money worth Tk 11 crore cash from a vehicle of Money Plant Ltd while it was going to refill money at the ATM of Dutch Bangla Bank in Savar, in Turag area of Uttara in the capital on March 9. 

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