Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 16 people, including a ringleader named Saiful Islam alias Scientist Saiful, on charges of misappropriating crores of taka and huge land in the name of implementing self-invented projects climate change, power plant project, corona prevention system.

They were rounded up from Dhaka and Tangail.

By Introducing himself a fake international standard scientist, Saiful and his other associates, were involved in cheating people in the name of making fuel less generators, setting up power plants, researching and mitigating the effects of climate change, as well as other recent fictitious inventions, said Company Commander of Rab-1 battalion Major Bin Yamin Hasan Bhuiya.

Other arrested people were identified as Bakuli Yasmin (48), Md. Imran Raja (25), Md. Kakuli Akhter (19), Md. Roman Badsha (18), Md. Anisuzzaman Siddiqui (53), Md. Nazmul Haque (30), Md. Tareq Aziz (40), Md. Bellal Hossain (61), Md. Abdul Mannan (50), Md. Shimul Mia (24), Md. Nurnabi (45), Md. Abul Hashem (42), Md. Ali Hossain (38), Md. Shawkat Ali (50), Md. Roknuzzaman ( 50), she added.

One foreign made pistol, one magazines and ammunition were recovered from thier possession during the period.

Based on a specific allegation, a operational team of Rab-1 conducted a drive on the new office of the fraudulent organization "Raja-Badsha" group in Uttara area at around 11:30 pm on Tuesday night and arrested the 16 people, including the ringleader Saiful.

Arrested Saiful Islam  was the mastermind of organized fraud syndicate. He has been conducting fraudulent activities since 2011 by forming a fake organization called "Raja-Badsha Group".

He introduced himself as the chairman of the group. His family members are also actively involved in this syndicate. Among them, wife Bakuli Yasmin, sons Md. Imran Raja and Md. Roman Badshah and daughter-in-law Kakuli Akter . They are all said to be in important positions in the fake company.