The Special Branch of police unearthed a false visa making centre in Sylhet city on Saturday evening.
The law enforcing agency seized 42 passports stamped with false visas of different countries, including United Kingdom and United States of America, visa related forged documents and visa making materials.
They also arrested 7 persons for their suspected involvement with the visas and documents forgery.
The arrested were identified as MK Zaman, 50, owner of Zaman Printers, a printing shop at Haq Super Market at Purba Zindabazar in the city, his cousin Belal Ahmed, 32, manager Mostafizur Rahman, 35, employee Sanowar, 22, Habib Hosen, 25, Munna, 23, and Al-Amin, 22, sources in the police said.
Local sources said a team of detective branch of police, led by the superintendent of immigration police of Dhaka, Nafiul Islam, raided the Zaman Printers at Haq Super Market in the evening and seized 39 passports that endorsed false visas of different countries, three Bangladeshi passports, visa related false documents and fake seals of different foreign high commissioners in Dhaka and their monograms.
The detective team took the arrested to the Sylhet Metropolitan Police headquarter at Nayorpul in the city and justified the false visas in association with a representative of the British High Commission's Dhaka office, sources in the team said.
Superintendent of the Dhaka Immigration Police, Nafiul Islam, told the reporters in the night at the SMP headquarters that the British High Commission representative confirmed that the visas that the stamped visas at the seized passports were forged.
'We have detected the spot through mobile phone tracking after receiving allegation from different foreign missions of visa forgery and providing false documentations,' he said to the reporters on Saturday night.
Nafiul Islam said that the arrested acknowledged that they had been active with the forgery business in behind of printing shop for long time.
The SMP commissioner, Amulya Bhushan Barua, on Sunday afternoon told New Age that the arrested persons were being interrogated at the SMP headquarters.
Source : New Age
