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| NGO vanishes with client money of Tk4.5 crore | |
| 2015-08-01 | |
[Dhaka Tribune] A non-government organization has allegedly disappeared after collecting about Tk4.5 crore
Al-Arafat Environment Development Foundation (AEDF), with a registration no S 584/(85)06, began its operation in 2006 on the first floor of Talukdar building in Hajiganj bazar. Tempting people with a scheme to double their deposit without interest as per the Islamic sharia, the foundation collected money from villagers, especially women and migrant workers. In the beginning they followed up with their promise and gave interest to some people to gain trust. After few months, the Executive Director of the foundation Ibrahim Khalil opened up a factory to manufacture plastic pipes. He also urged others to buy shares of his Rupa Plastic factory. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Ibrahim left Bangladesh in March of this year for a so called visit to five countries. In his absence, the Managing Director of the foundation Azad Mazumdar continued the money collection. Mizanur Rahman, a resident of Borokul union, said: "When I was working in Kuwait, my wife made a fixed deposit worth Tk1.18 lakh for six years with the foundation. Now they are supposed to give me back Tk2.36 lakh but they have been avoiding me. Today when I came to visit the office, I was told it no longer existed." Abu Taleb, a resident of the same union, said his wife opened a monthly deposit scheme for Tk200. "Now I don't know where they are. Not only my wife, many people from our village had fallen victim." He further said someone named Krishna from the organization collected money from more than 200 people in his village. "The amount will be about Tk1 crore. In the same way he collected money from Dherra village, Borokul, Bolakhal, Mokimabad, Enayetpur, Sudiya, Urpur, Rampur, Kochua, Rampur, Deshgaon and other places." | |
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