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Rab arrests 4 smugglers with 5kg gold

Staff Correspondent
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-1) officials yesterday arrested four alleged gold smugglers from different places in the city and recovered 5 kilograms of gold ornaments, Tk 44.22 lakh in cash and a Toyota Corolla car from their possession.
Rab-1 officials said the gold recovered had been smuggled into the country’ from India and the arrestees are the members belonging to one of the biggest gold smuggling rings in the country.
Rab first arrested Alok Chakraborti and Salauddin alias Dalim from Dhaka Cantonment Railway Station area with the car at about 5:30am. They recovered Tk 1.22 lakh and a bag containing the gold ornaments.
Following confessions from Alok and Salauddin. Rab went to Paritosh Chakraborti's Gausia Dynasty residence in Ramna from where they recovered Tk 30 lakh in cash and arrested him.
They then raided the house of one John at New Eskaton and recovered Tk 13 lakh from him
FROM PAGE 16 following information obtained fromPantosh.
Maj Mohammad Aminul Huq of Rab-1 told The Daily Star tnat Paritosh and John are the smugglers and Alok and Salauddin the transporters who physically handle the gold form one place to another.
“Both Paritosh and Salauddin are members of one of the biggest smug glingrings in the country?’he said
"The smugglers smuggle the gold into the country from India and sell diem to different gold traders in old Dhaka", he said, "The cash recovered from those arrested is proceeds from the sale of that gold."
Maj Amin said the arrested were being kept in Rab-1 custody for further interrogation.
Earlier on March 5, Rab-10 members seized 660 tolas of gold from five gold shops and arrested eight gold traders from the city's Tantibazar and Shankhanribazar for having no legal papers to claim the gold in their possession.
After the incident, the bullion traders went on strike for five days to protest the Rab drive. They withdrew their strike at assurances from the Dhaka Deputy Commissioner A A M Nasihul Kamal of no further harassment.
Of the smugglers arrested. Paritosh Chakraborti. 51, hails from Golam Mostofa Road of Madanmohan Para of Jhenidah towri. He is resident in a flat at Gausia Dynasty at Circuit House Road under Ramna police station.
The other arrestee Fariquzzaman alias John, 40, hails from Poradah under Mirpur police station in Kushtia district. He is a resident of Eastern Tower at New Eskaton.
The transporters arrested are Alok Chakraborti, 31, of Bejpara in Jessore town and driver Mohammad Salauddin alias Dalim