Human trafficking: RAB arrested a fugitive

RAB-11 has arrested a fugitive named Osman Gani (30) in the case of human trafficking. On Tuesday (May 23), he was arrested in Gowaldi area of Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj. This person is also known as Tariqul Islam alias Alamin. It is known that he used to create fake identity cards and passports in the name of Tariqul Islam and continued this crime.

In a press release sent to the media, the name of the arrested Osman Gani was mentioned in the RAB press release as Tariqul Islam alias Al-Amin (30). He is from Sonargaon upazila Gowaldi Char area. Abdul Jalil’s son Osman Gani changed his name several times to avoid punishment after the crime.

According to RAB, his profession is to embezzle cash and sell it outside the country by enticing innocent people to go abroad. The arrested accused and his accomplices offered people to go abroad with the inducement that they could send people for jobs. They also offerd job to innocent peple in Malaysia with huge salaries. The accused go into hiding and abscond after taking large sums of money in advance from innocent people. After that, the innocent people fell into the trap of fraud of the accused and sold their land and houses to go abroad.

RAB-11 Senior ASP (Media Officer) Md. Rizwan Saeed Ziku said in a press release that the arrested accused is one of the members of organized human trafficking gang. He lures innocent people to take them abroad, traps them in fraud, embezzles cash and sells it outside the country. He is a plaintiff in Dhuriyail village of Barisal. Nayan enticed Sardar to send him to Malaysia with the promise that his business would arrange him regular visits to the cloth shop and a well-paying job for him to go abroad. Later, an agreement was made between the defendant and the plaintiff for the cost of going abroad for Rs.4 lakhs. According to the agreement, the plaintiff sent a total of 3 lakh rupees to the account of the member of the smuggling ring in three stages. Later on, October 8, 2022, he sent 5/7 people including the plaintiff to Kathmandu, Nepal by air to send him to Malaysia and promised to send the plaintiff to Malaysia if he paid another 1 lakh rupees as a hostage. But according to them, even after paying Tk 1 lakh, they sold him to some brokers in Nepal instead of sending him to Malaysia. Expatriates living in Nepal returned home with the help of Bangladeshis after spending almost 25 days in inhuman life there. Later, the plaintiff came to the country against the defendants in Barisal Gournadi Model Police Station in 2012 human trafficking.

According to RAB, Gani was arrested from Char Gwaldi area of Sonargaon upazila on Tuesday while he was hiding. He has been handed over to Barisal Gournadi Model Police Station for further legal action against him.

Meanwhile, a complaint has been lodged against Osman Gani due to the complaint of a Bangladeshi expatriate in Malaysia.
It is said in the complaint, Osman Gani alias Md. Tariqul Islam took thousands of Malaysian ringgits by arranging work permits, visas, passports etc. for various expatriate brothers. However, since all his information (name, father’s name, mother’s name, address, personal number, date of birth etc.) is false, it was not possible to arrest him or bring him under the law for a long time.

He was arrested in 2022 on charges. After his arrest, his passport, Malaysian driving license and permanent residency card were recovered from him.

After verifying the passport information found with him locally, it is found that the accused’s name, father’s name, maiden name and even the date of birth and birth registration number mentioned in the passport are all false.
According to local sources, the real name of the accused is Osman Gani Dalim. He has so far produced a total of 5 passports with false information. He received the latest passport on 09 March 2021 from Passport and Visa Wing, Bangladesh High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Although his birth registration number was given in that passport, no information was found against that birth registration number.
After interrogation, RAB said that the Malaysian government banned his stay in the country and canceled his passport due to his involvement in various crimes in Malaysia. The Malaysian government is looking for him to bring him under the law. The accused realized this and produced a new passport with a completely new name. Later he procured a driving license and permanent residency card etc. In this way, he has been freely staying in Malaysia for almost two decades and carrying out various criminal activities.