Speaking at a news conference held at the Dampara Police Lines on Friday, Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operations) of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police, Muhammad Faisal Ahmed, stated that the operation took place between 11:00 pm and midnight. Investigators raided a property on Road 4 of the Krishnachura Residential Area in Jalalabad. Although 63 suspects were apprehended, the ringleader evaded capture and remains at large.

The suspects comprise 35 nationals from Laos, 21 from Pakistan, five from China, and one each from Nepal and Vietnam. Officers seized 170 electronic devices used to orchestrate the global fraud network.

Investigators revealed that the syndicate had rented the property—owned by an expatriate living in Dubai—approximately six weeks prior. Operating behind closed doors, the suspects ran sophisticated scamming schemes using fake websites, fraudulent emails, and social media platforms. Victims were targeted globally with fictitious job offers, lucrative investment schemes, and deceptive promises of high financial returns. Local residents noted that the foreign nationals had claimed to be students enrolled at local universities to avoid suspicion.

Senior police officials expressed concern over a rising trend of foreign nationals entering the country legally before overstaying their visas or deliberately destroying their passports to engage in organised crime. Local accomplices frequently assist these syndicates by providing access to Bangladeshi bank accounts and mobile financial service accounts to facilitate money laundering. A formal case has been lodged with Khulshi Police Station, and forensic experts are currently examining the confiscated digital equipment.