Dhaka, March 29 -- The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested five people on allegations of laundering billions of taka from expatriate Bangladeshis working in Dubai through Hundi instead of sending them in through legal banking channels.

Among the arrestees is the owner of a mobile financial services company and two of his employees.

An individual named Shahidul Islam aka Mamun bought 150 MFS agent SIMs from the distributor and used them to control the transactions using the 'Jet Robotic' app, law enforcers said.

Whenever an expatriate worker from Dubai wanted to send money home, Mamun would collect foreign currency from them and then use the 'Jet Robotic' app's agent accounts to send money to the expatriate's desired nu...