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Swindling in the weirdest way

Man marries off wife to expatriate last year; manages flat, money, jewellery in the process

Kailash Sarkar
Real life sometimes supercedes the fantastic plot of a cinema script.
A man has been accused of arranging the marriage of his own wife with an expatriate man to extract money from him.
Monir Hossain Sikder, 35, married Salma Mustari Shumi in
2002 and then in January 2008 he got Salma married to Greece expatriate Bangladeshi youth Shilon 1 lossain Munshi.
Shilon Munshi Tiled a case with Shahbagh police station yesterday accusing both Monir and Salma of cheating him and misappropriatingaroundTk 50 lakh from him in the process.
In the case statement, Shilon mentioned that the fraudulent marriage was staged only to pocket money from him.
He also mentioned that he had lived a conjugal life with Salma in aflat at Banglamotor in the city for two monthsand had also spent a honeymoon at Cox's Bazar after the wedding.
"After I completed all formalities to take my wife to Greece, Salma refused to go and admitted during a telephone call to me that she was actually married to someone else," Shilon said.
Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Rezaul Karim told I he Daily Star that the case has been handed over to the detective branch of police for investigation.
SEE PAGE 15 COL 1 Shilon also talked to SalmaS mother over the telephone before he returned to Bangladesh for the wedding in January 2008 Whether this woman is actually Salma's mother or not is unclear now.
The wedding was held in this flat at Banglamotor, and Salma also showed Shilon papers stating that she had purchased the Hat in her own name. During and after the wedding, Shilon’s mother and sister also stayed in this flat along with the new couple.
Talking to The Daily Star at the DB office, detained Monir Hossain admitted that he had introduced his wife to Shilon but denied any other involvement. He said his wife had built up a relationship with Shilon behind his back When questioned about the time of the wedding and the honeymoon, Monir said he was out of the country at the time with his mother to perform the Holy Hajj.
Monir also said that if Shilon withdraws the case, he is willing to take up his wife’s liabilities and gradually pay back all the money she took from Shilon.
Monir also informed the police that Salma was never a student of DU, in fact she had completed her HSC from Sheikh Borhanuddin College.
Shilon had earlier been married and has three children. Hegot divorced in 2002.
• Shilon has told the police that he had informed both Monir and Salma of his earlier marriage when he was introduced to them.
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Assistant Commissioner (AC) of police Md Golam Azad Khan said Monir has already been arrested from his Merul Badda residence in the city.
The AC also said that Salma •Sad not been arrested as she was now in the ninth month of her pregnancy. Since Shilon left the country over a year ago. it was not clear who the father of the child is.
Monir is the son of Taher Ali Sikder of Palong upazila in Shariatpur and is an Applied Chemistry graduate from Dhaka University. At present he runs a trawl related business. While in university' he was vice president Bangladesh Chhatra League's Fazlul Haque Hall unit.
lalking to The Daily Star. Shilon. who has been living in Athens, Greece since 1999. said that he was introduced to Monir at DU by a friend in October 2006 w hile on a visit to Bangladesh. Subsequently Monir agreed to help him find a bride.
Shilon said. 'Monir introduced me to Salma at Hotel Sheraton, saying Salma was a friend ofMonir's girlfriend and . like a sister to them. Monir said . Salma's father was dead, and she studied at Dhaka university, supporting herself by tuitions. I grew close to her and eventually we decided to get married the next year."
He then left for Greece in December 2006.
Shilon then kept in touch with Salma over phone calls and sent Salma Tk 20.000 per month for her study and living expenses.
'During the wedding. I gave her a diamond ring worth Tk 85.000, three necklaces of 25 tolas of gold worth Tk 6,30.000 and a gold ring worth Tk 12.000,' Shilon said.
'As my would-be wife demanded. 1 sent her Tk 7 lakh more for other purposes and just before we got married she proposed that I send her money to buy a flat in the city as neither of us have a place to live in Dhaka. " said Shilon who hails from Gopalganj.
'1 then sent her Tk 22 lakh to buy a flat at Banglamotor."