DHAKA: Malaysian police is looking for fugitive Tamim, a Bangladeshi mastermind for many fraudulent practices including misappropriating crores of money alluring Malaysian visa even cheating many businessmen here.

Cases were filed with police stations of Kuala Lumpur against Tamim when affected people filed complaint against him. Tamim became fugitive after the lodging of cases.

Mohammad Kamaluddin, owner of Café Cookers of Karwanbazar of Dhaka, alleged that Tamim has misappropriated his Taka 800,000 in the name of arranging a business residence visa of Malaysia.

Kamaluddin told Banglanews that Café Cookers was established in 1992. Tamim’s mother Chaity once worked here. With that connection Tamim used to address him as ‘maternal uncle’.

Due to cold allergy Kamaluddin used to visit Malaysia on several occasions as a tourist. The climate suited him for his cold allergy. Under this background he once decided to start a business there.

Tamim allured him to start a company there promising to provide him a business residence visa. His so called nephew told him that getting a residence visa will be no problem as he (Tamim) has good connections with Malaysian immigration office and administration.

He further told that Tamim said he would open a student consultancy firm and make Kamaluddin a partner in Bangladesh and one of his friends will be a partner from Australia.

Immediately Kamaluddin went to Malaysia on tourist visa. He used to reside in Tamim’s house where Tamim’s mother also lived. Earlier Tamim informed him that it will require not more than MYR 12,000 (Taka 30,000 approx.) to open a company along with other incidental costs.

On the very second day, Tamim took MYR 2,000 from him and next he took another 6,000 Ringgits for incidental expenses.

Next, Tamim took MYR 2,000 for office space allotment. Kamaluddin was shown an office space at Bukit Bintang. But a few days later, Kamaluddin came to know that all were false.

From his experiences gathered after passing some time with Tamim, Kamaluddin told that in one night he found a bag with 200 passports owned by the labors. “But later on I came to know that Tamim also played fraud with these passports,” he added.

Tamim’s mother returned to the country after her visa was expired. Suddenly one day Tamim along with Kamaluddin checked in a hotel leaving the house. Tamim took more money from Kamaluddin in the name of opening the company with another fraud Malaysian. Even he took the hotel expenses amounting to few thousand Ringgits from Kamaluddin.

Kamal added that after giving me a file Tamim advised me to return to country. Even on the last day he took few thousand Ringgits.

After returning to country Kamaluddin could not contact Tamim after repeated attempts. After investigation Kamal came to know that Tamim has deceived a number of people and appropriated lakhs of money. Malaysian police is now after him as soon as the case was lodged with them.

A Bangladeshi student Minhajur Rahman told Banglanews that Tamim also took MYR 5,000 from him.

Moreover, Tamim did fraud of lakhs of money of many Bangladeshi labors in name of renewing their passports and visas.

The expatriates in Malaysia alleged that Tamim has deceived them in disguise of student consultant, artist and hotel business man.

BDST: 1754 HRS, JAN 17, 2015