DHAKA, July 8, 2025 (BSS) - Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three members of a fraudulent gang including, two Nigerians, from the capital's Pallabi and Mirpur areas in the last two days.
  
The arrested have been identified as two Nigerian citizens Frank Coco (36), Emanuwel (35) and a Bangladeshi female member Mosa Sweety Akhter (27).
 
A team of RAB-1 arrested the trio in separate raids in Pallabi and Mirpur areas on Monday and Tuesday, said a RAB press release.  
 
Two laptops, four iPhones, three smart mobile phones, three button mobile phones, one tab, and one Orico brand hard drive used in the fraud were seized from their possessions, it also said.

During the preliminary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they had been involved in the fraud for a long time.
 
The arrested Nigerians Coco and Emanuwel and have been involved in the fraud for almost two years. Their associate Sweety Akhter has been associated with them for the last three months. Coco was arrested by RAB-10 two years back and again engaged in the misdeed after being released from jail on bail.
 
In the recent operation, RAB personnel have found around Tk 18 lakh in their Nagad and Bikash accounts, where money is still being deposited based on previously sent messages from different places, the release said.
 
The arrested female member mainly contacted the numbers of various Bangladeshis provided by the local coordinator/media in Bangladesh for a long time and extorted money from the victims by luring them. The media gets a share of 10%-15% of the money obtained through fraud.