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DB arrests four senior bankers
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S Alam Group is well-represented on the board of Social Islami Bank.
They were arrested from different areas in the capital on Wednesday, said Harun-or-Rashid, the chief of the Detective Branch, at a press briefing yesterday.
The arrestees have been spreading false information about Islami Bank.
“Islami Bank is a reputed bank. Few individuals have been attempting to destabilise the country’s financial sector by spreading false information about banks and financial institutions through social media and other means,” he added.
The arrestees are associated with Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, according to DMP’s news portal dmpnews.org.
Earlier on January 8, DB arrested five people, including a 70-year-old businessman and two minors, in connection with the case.
They are businessmen Mohammad Nur Un Nabi, Afsar Uddin Roman and Abu Sayeed Saju. The two minors are aged between 17 and 15.
Abdul Kuddus, a deputy manager of S Alam group, filed the case with Gulshan Police Station on January 5 under the Digital Security Act.
In the case, Kuddus accused Nabi and Golam Sarowar Mia, and Mazharul Islam alias Rasel. Saju and Roman had not been mentioned.
Police arrested Rasel on December 27 in another DSA case filed by an S Alam Group official with Double Mooring Police Station in Chattogram. Nabi and Mia were accused in this case too.
Kuddus said he found posters demeaning S Alam Group on walls and pillars behind Nafi Tower in Gulshan-1 and its adjacent areas on December 22, according to the case statement.
Founded in 1985 by Muhammad Saiful Alam Masud Chowdhury, S Alam Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh.
It has been in the news recently for its alleged borrowing of over Tk 30,000 crore from Islami Bank, where it has 26.73 percent stakes. The amount was way beyond the group’s entitled quota, prompting the High Court to order an investigation.

Nazi gold sparks
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gold coins, believed to be worth 11 million euros ($11.9 million) at current value.
“That means that all kinds of people have come to Ommeren to search for it,” says Tammes, 74, the former local mayor, inside his home built on the remains of a former Nazi headquarters.
“But it hasn’t been found.”
The Nazis allegedly looted the treasure after the bombing of a bank in Arnhem in 1944, but are then believed to have buried it after the Allied “Market Garden” offensive near the town.
A few steps from his home there are muddy holes from the excavations, along a tree-lined path and a shallow ditch consistent with the drawings on the map.
So many people armed with metal detectors have flocked to the quiet village in recent days that the local municipality brought in a ban, and police began to move on treasure hunters as soon as they arrived.
But some persist.
“Our interest was immediately aroused,” says Hendrik Hingstman, a detectorist whose father Lammert is one of the many who have come to Ommeren.
Hendrik and Lammert are convinced they have found the spot where the treasure was buried using a dowsing rod, a wooden stick sometimes wielded in the belief it can locate underground water.
They hope to obtain a permit to excavate soon.
National Archives spokesman Erwin Tuil said the “interest was unprecedented.”
Documents show at least three unsuccessful attempts to find the treasure in the spring of 1947 following the testimony of Helmut Sonder, a German soldier who said he was involved in hiding it.