The way he becomes one of top fraudsters

Shahirul Islam Sikder, chairman of so-called human rights organization and managing director (MD) of Homeland Securities and Guard Service Ltd, has become one of the top fraudsters in his style. He also used to pretend to be a ‘powerful person’ while cheating people, according to Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

RAB-4 Captain and Additional DIG Mozammel Haque briefed media at its media centre in Kawran Bazar in the capital on Saturday (October 23).

He said, “Shahirul was arrested in a raid on a house and institution in Banasree area of Rampura on Friday night (October 22). Recently, many people including one Solaiman Hossain, complained to RAB against Shahirul that he cheated them in name of giving jobs.”

Then an intelligence team of RAB-4 started a shadow investigation. According to the investigation, Shahirul claimed to be the chairman of a human rights organization and the managing director of Homeland Security and Guard Services Ltd. He, with these identification, embezzle huge amount of money from people in name of giving jobs, he said.

The Rise of Shahirul

After passing HSC, Shahirul started car business in native his district Brahmanbaria. It was also learned that he worked for Soukhin Paribahan from 1996 to 2003. Then he started his new business of fraudulent. He launched a business of providing security guards since 2003. In 2014, he started a new institution called ‘Homeland Security and Guard Service Ltd’ in Rampura area.

At one stage, Shahirul changed his office address to cover up allegations of fraud. He started identified himself as chairman of an anonymous human rights organization instead of Homeland Security Service Ltd to show him up influential. In order to demonstrate his power, he took pictures with eminent persons and displayed them and used the names of various senior officials as references. It was learned that he embezzled huge sums of money in name of giving jobs to unemployed, educated men and women as security guards, drivers, computer operators, office assistants, sales officers and linemen etc.

Cheating tactics

Fraudster Shahirul used to advertise his job in order to appoint security guards in different organizations. When educated and unemployed youth got attracted to the advertisement and applied for jobs, he lured them and took money. He used to take Tk 15,000 to 25,000 for private jobs while Tk 5-10 lakh for government offices.

He also took money for training, uniforms and ancillary expenses. In this way, he used to take money from innumerable people, but appointed only a few people and embezzled the rest. He used to intimidate the victims with illegal weapons if they claimed money back.

Mentionable, fraudster Shahirul was sued in a case filed with Rampura police station for his fraudulent and extortion and identifying himself as a government official.