Dhaka, July 5 -- The Detective Brach (DB) of police arrested three alleged members of a fraud gang on charge of swindling money out of high government officials and renowned persons in society impersonating top terrorists.

They used to extort the money by issuing threats to the victims over phone.

The arrestees were Md Abdul Mannan Dulal alias Jahangir (55), Md Nasim Hasan Lablu (44) and Ilias Sikder alias Belayet (54).

Dhaka Metropolitan Police ( DMP) Deputy Police Commissioner ( Media and Public Relations) Mohammad Talebur Rahman said that the DB police of DMP arrested the trio by carrying out continuous raids at Mirpur and Pallabi in the capital and Gachha in Gazipur.

He said that the arrestees were engaged in realising money throu...