Dhaka: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Bangladesh Police said, ‘Canadian citizen wants husband for pretty childless divorcee women’ - the fraudsters are swindling crores of money publishing such advertisements in newspapers.
CID Additional DIG Sheikh Rezaul Haider said this at a press conference held at his office in the capital's Malibagh on Friday (September 18). He said that on July 9, an advertisement was published in a national daily - Established businessman Citizen Divorcee of Canada, childless age 37, 5 feet 3 inches tall, looking for an old man interested in taking charge of the business for the pious bride. Address for communication - Baridhara. Along with this, Sadia Jannat alias Jannatul Ferdous has given a mobile number.
The CID officr said, ‘Even though the educational qualification is SSC pass, many people have mistaken her as a Canadian expatriate. Many people have lost crores of money by falling into the trap. '
Jannatul had been cheating with such advertisements in newspapers for the last 11 years. The CID arrested her from the Gulshan area of the capital in the afternoon on Thursday (September 17) on the basis of the allegations.
Jannatul divorced her first husband and started cheating with her second husband. CID has found her property worth Taka 20 crore in and around Dhaka.
During the operation, many passports, 10 mobile phones, 3 memory cards, 6 seals, innumerable SIMs and an account book of the money embezzled through fraud were recovered from her.
Sheikh Rezaul Haider, Additional DIG of CID, said, ‘I saw such advertisements. Nazir Hassan used the mobile phone of the fraudster Jannatul. At one stage, he met her at a restaurant in Gulshan on July 12. After the marriage, he will be taken to Canada and will take care of his business worth Taka 200 crore there. Believing these words of Jannatul, the victim initially paid Taka 150,000 and a passport. Later, the fraudster Jannatul said that she would bring back Taka 200 crore from Canada due to severe winter and will do business in the country later.
According to the CID, Jannatul Ferdous switched off the phone by snatching Taka 1.69 crore from the victim Nazir Hossain for tax / VAT / DHL bill on different dates to get the money back through DHL.
Addl. DIG Sheikh Rezaul Haider said, ‘Jannatul has swindled a huge amount of money by trapping many at different times since 2010.’