{"id":32720,"date":"2017-04-26T04:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T04:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=32720"},"modified":"2017-04-26T04:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T04:24:15","slug":"bomb-threat-against-australian-high-commission-for-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=32720","title":{"rendered":"Bomb threat against Australian High Commission for extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Australian-HC_edited-690x450\"DMP Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime division is investigating the matter.<\/h2>\n
The Australian High Commission in Bangladesh has received an email demanding Tk500,000 as extortion, with a threat of a bomb attack at the high commission office if it refuses to make the payment.<\/div>\n
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The email was sent from an unknown email account on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (Diplomatic Security Division) Md Jasim Uddin told Dhaka Tribune: \u201cThe identity of the sender of the mail is yet to be confirmed by police until a report is filed. Security measures have been increased around the high commission office as well as the entire diplomatic zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulshan police Officer-in-Charge Abu Bakar Siddique has said: \u201cAn email, containing a mobile number and a bank account number, was sent to the high commission\u2019s email address. DMP Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime division is investigating the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

A DMP Detective Branch official, seeking anonymity, has said that the bank account number, mentioned in the email, belongs to a businessman residing in the Badda area of Dhaka.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the businessman was nabbed, he told police that someone had conspired against him and used his bank account number to get him into trouble,\u201d said the DB official.<\/p>\n

Police said legal measures will be taken in this regard. However, no complaint was lodged with the police in this connection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DMP Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime division is investigating the matter. The Australian High Commission in Bangladesh has received an email demanding Tk500,000 as extortion, with a threat of a bomb attack at the high commission office if it refuses to make the payment. The email was sent from an unknown email account on Tuesday afternoon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n