Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have detained eight alleged members of an international human trafficking ring in the Badda and Savar areas of Dhaka.

The arrestees are identified as ringleader Tutul, 38, his cohort Taiyab, 45, Jalal Uddin Limon, 38, Maruf Hasan,37, Jahangir Alam, 38, Laltu Islam, 28, Alamin Hossain, 30, and Abdullah Al Mamun, 54.

A team of RAB-4 carried out a drive at three overseas companies--Tutul Overseas, Limon Overseas and Loyal Overseas-- owned by Tutul in Dhaka's Badda area from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning and arrested them who traffic people to middle-east countries

RAB-4 commander additional DIG Mozammel Haque told this at a press briefing held at RAB media centre.

The elite force also rescued four victims from the scene and seized seized 10 passports, two computers, cash Tk 10,000 and cheques of different banks and other documents, he said, adding they conducted the drive after receiving allegations from families of several victims.

Tutul, once a grocery shop owner, became the owner of an overseas company through human trafficking, the RAB official added.

BDST: 1410 HRS, OCT 13, 2021
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