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The hand of the fraudulent cycle in the sense of stipend.

Hasan and Shamima are siblings. Their home is in Char Magharia village of Paba Upazila of Rajshahi. They went to Pobar Char Nabinagar Government Primary School. Hasan is in fifth and Shamima is in third class. Hasan and Shamima from poor families were getting 300 rupees per month stipend. The money from the government stipend used to come to their mother Adra Begum’s mobile phone. In the first week of March, an unknown person called Adra’s mobile phone. An official of the financial services company ‘Nagader’ introduced himself on his mobile phone. Tactically, the man got the secret PIN number of the cash account from Adra. Shortly afterward, Hassan and Shamima’s stipends were withdrawn by members of an organized digital fraud ring.

Adra Begum said in the first light on her mobile phone, ‘We are poor people. My two children received stipends. With that money, I would buy their notebooks and other things. ‘

Not only the children of Adra Begum but also the members of more than two hundred students of more than two hundred government primary schools in at least nine districts of the country have been embezzled by the members of the organized fraudsters.

The incident of misappropriation of stipend money of government primary school students has shaken the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education. I held a joint meeting at the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education on March 25 to decide what to do. According to the report of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, the members of the fraudulent ring first got the secret PIN number from the parents by identifying the cash officer. Later, the fraudsters took the students’ money and blocked their mobile numbers. Students are being deprived of stipend money due to such fraud.

A case has been filed in the capital’s Banani police station on April 2 accusing unidentified persons of the incident. However, no accused has been arrested so far.

Touhidul Islam Chowdhury, the plaintiff and cash officer in the case, told Prothom Alo that the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education had informed the cash in writing about the fraud. Later, fraud also came up in the search for cash. So far, they have identified 143 mobile phone numbers of the fraudsters.

Gulshan police were initially investigating the cash case. However, they could not catch anyone. Later, the case was investigated by the Detective-Cyber ​​and Special Crime Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. However, they have not yet arrested anyone.

Muhammad Shariful Islam, the deputy commissioner of the detective-cyber and special crime department, told Prothom Alo that all those who misappropriated students’ stipends through digital fraud would be brought under the law.

SM Tariqul Islam, Assistant Secretary (Law) at the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, told Prothom Alo that the ministry knows about the embezzlement of stipend money from students of many government primary schools in the district. We have also filed a case against those involved in the matter.

News Source: Prothom Alo

News Date: June 21, 2021