An Australian expatriate woman named Umme Fatema Rosie has allegedly embezzled crores of taka from Supreme Court lawyer ABM Khairul Islam Liton in the name of issuing Australian migrant visas.
The plaintiff alleges that Rosie faked her identity as a visa officer of the Australian High Commission. She is also threatening to kill all family members of the victim if he takes any legal action.
Two cases have been filed in this regard against three including Umme Fatema Rosie, one in the court of Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Mohammad AS Shams Jaglul Hossain and the other in Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmuda Akter’s court. The two other accused in the case are Rosie’s mother Farida Yasmin and brother Rakibul Hasan Mitul.
According to the lawsuit, Rosie had a long acquaintance with plaintiff Liton, who had been in contact with her for some time. At one point, Rosie offered the plaintiff to provide Australian Migration Visa introducing herself as an Visa officer of the Australian High Commission.The plaintiff trusted her and made an verbal agreement for gaining 35 migration visas for his family.
In order to gain the trust of the plaintiff, Rosie first provided a copy of her mother’s visa to the plaintiff and then handed over six visa papers one after the other and said that due to Coronavirus, all of their online activities are closed. So, all the documents have to be exchanged via email. At different times they provided the documents from multiple fake mail IDs and they took viva by phone instead of giving a virtual viva to the embassy. Umme Fatema Rosie sent two account numbers of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited which are- (1) Allah Dan Garments, Current Account Number-20501570100395200 Ramna Branch, Dhaka and (2) Maria Akhter, Savings Account Number-44052 Kishore Branch.
As per the instructions of Rosie the plaintiff transferred Tk 3209,600 in the account number named Allahr Dan Garments – and Tk 2678,000 in the savings account number named Maria Akhter for visa application between 31/03/2021 to 08/06/2021.
Rosie’s mother Farida Yasmeen was given cash Tk 10,00,000 / – (one million) on 15/04/2021 and cash Tk 10,00,000 on 04/05/2021 for air ticket and Tk 20,00,000 for residence expenses totaling Tk 78,67,600 by the plaintiff.
As the plaintiff received fake tickets for a Virgin flight issued a few days later, the found out from an email of Virgin Airlines headquarters that none of their aircrafts are currently operate flights on this route. That’s when they caught Rosie cheating. When tried to contact, she started talking here and there and later stopped communicating.
The case alleges that Umm Fatema Rosie embezzled the money in a few installments and in various ways in exchange for fake visas, fake Medicare / Health cards and fake Virgin Airlines tickets. The complaint further mentions, Umme Fatema Rosie, father-deceased Razzak Mia, Australia Passport No-Cho 9740312 Bharukathi (Mia Bari), Thana and District- Jhalokati. Dhaka Address-Plot No-63 (5th Floor), Road No-5/2, Block-D, South Banasree, Thana-Khilgaon.
Fraud No. 1 and 3 are currently in Australia and No. 2 accused Farida Yasmin is in Khilgaon.
The plaintiff further alleged that she had taken money from 2,004 people more through fraud and embezzled it. There are several cases against the accused in different police stations. Umme Fatema Rosie and her accomplices are carrying out various activities in Australia to take up the cases against the plaintiff. They are trying to influence the case in various ways.
Rosie could not be reached for comments despite repeated attempt.
