[Bangla Daily Star] The Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday claimed to have jugged Pakistain-based Islamic exemplar group Lashker-e-Taiba's coordinator in Bangladesh and two of his Pak associates.The arrestees are LeT's Bangladesh coordinator Khurram alias Mohammad Salem, 42, and his associates Abdul Malek, 31, and Imran, 31. All the three Pak nationals were jugged at a hotel in the capital on Saturday.
Acting on a tip off, DB police raided the hotel and jugged the three with 160 cartons of foreign cigarettes and 153 bottles of exotic perfume, said Deputy Commissioner (DC) Monirul Islam of DB during a press briefing at his office.
The DC said Khurram's name emerged as the coordinator of India and Bangladesh chapters when Indian nationals Mufti Obaidullah and Maulana Emadullah and Pak national Sufian Ajhari were jugged here and interrogated for their involvement with LeT.
DB officials claimed that Khurram had also been serving the banned Islamic exemplar outfits Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-islami (Huji).
In the face of frequent arrests in Bangladesh, the LeT operatives have adopted the method of using several names and passports for each individual, said the DC adding, that the LeT men also use Bangladeshi passports.
He said although Khurram has Bangladeshi passport, he used his Pak one this time. According to his seized passport, Khurram visited the country 11 times this year so far.
Asked, the DC said the immigration cannot identify a person who use different names and passports.
He said the LeT operatives use the country as a transit for counterfeit money business although they could not establish an LeT unit in the country. However,
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their effort to recruit operatives from here is on, added the DC.
DC Monirul Islam said that so far they have jugged three Pak and three Indian LeT adherents and their several Bangladeshi aides.