Fake journalist couple held for embezzlement

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Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Jun-08,

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a fake journalist couple on charges of embezzling huge money from a number of
people promising to give home at the Prime Minister’s Ashrayan Project from Rajasan area of Savar upazila of the district on Tuesday night.

The arrested were identified as Md Sumon Hawladar alias Edrish Ali, 40 and his wife Poli Akter, 35, residents of Patuakhali District.

“On a tip-off, an operational team of the RAB-4 conducted a raid in the area and nabbed them,” Sergeant Md Aman Ulla of RAB-4 told the media.

The RAB team also seized 40 passbooks, two Regulation books, four registers, 38 application forms, nine seals, nine ID cards, 100 NID photocopies and two Mobile phone sets from their possession.

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