Bangladeshi student`s bank account used for money laundering in India, 4 arrested

Bengaluru police have arrested 4 people, including two Bangladeshis, on charges of illegally laundering money from India to Bangladesh. 

According to Bengaluru police sources, a Bangladeshi student studying in Bengaluru, was illegally renting motorbikes to foreign nationals, and the Bengaluru police came to know the sensational information. 

After questioning the Bangladeshi student, the police found a gang. The investigating officers came to know that some citizens of his country were using his bank account and were carrying out illegal activities and illegal transactions. 

It is known that money was coming into the bank account of the Bangladeshi student from abroad and later that money was transferred to Bangladesh.

Police have now taken a complaint from, Md Noman Hameed, 24, a resident of Kacharakanahalli in Banaswadi, and registered a case against four men running these illegal activities. 

His accounts were getting money from abroad which would be transferred to his Bangladeshi bosses.

Hameed told Banaswadi police on March 14 that he believed the transactions in his bank accounts were only related to renting bikes. 

He was being paid Rs 8,000 per month for maintaining the record of transactions in bank accounts and renting his account for the accused's transactions. 

Police said the transactions were related to not only bike rentals and could have been used for more illegal activities.

The suspects are Umer Arif and Fahim Ahmed from Bangladesh, Sudan national Abubakar and Ahmed Fatih, whose nationality is not known. 

Hameed, a BBA student in a private college in Banaswadi, has been staying in a flat in the area since 2022.