3 held over extortion posing as DGFI members at Uttara

Police arrested three people for extorting Tk 159,000 from a man in Uttara allegedly by posing as members of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI).

The arrestees are Md Russell Mahbub alias Masum, 42, Sohel Mirza, 41, and Md Sajib, 36.

Quoting Uttara East Police Station, DMP’s DC (Media) Akhter Hossain said Saturday noon that a patrol team from the police station went to a flat on the 10th floor of a building on Road No. 3 in Sector 4 around 8am on Friday after receiving information through the national emergency service 999.

Police said several people were threatening flat owner Kaiyum Shahriar Zahedi claiming to be DGFI members and telling him that a case had been filed against him.

At one stage, they demanded Tk 10 lakh from him to settle the purported case and Zahedi paid them Tk 159,000 out of fear.�"UNB