The bodies of two Bangladeshi nationals have been found in a flat in Saudi Arabia’s Dammam.
Police recovered the bodies of brothers Quamruzzaman Kakon, 26, and Kamrul Islam Sagor, 22, on Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com.
Kakon and Sagor are the sons of trader Md Mosharraf Hossain Lombari from Gazipur’s Uttar Bhurulia.
The family says that Kakon had completed his BSc in engineering from a private university and had been looking for work. Bahar Uddin, director of Samia International in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan, made an offer to Kakon’s father to send him to Canada on a work visa for Tk 2.1 million.
Despite paying Tk 300,000 and repeated efforts, Kakon could not be sent to Canada. Bahar Uddin then proposed a Tk 430,000 deal to send the younger brother Sagor to Saudi Arabia for a well-paying job.
The family agreed and Sagor left for Saudi in October. However, the family claims that after he arrived in Dammam, he was detained in a room and a ransom of Tk 400,000 was demanded from his father.
The family says Mosharraf paid the amount out of concern for his son’s safety. Despite paying the money, Sagor was not given a permanent job, but instead put to work as a delivery driver for food and grocery delivery service Hungerstation.
When the family asked for the return of the Tk 300,000 they had paid to send Kakon to Canada, Bahar offered to get him a high-paying job at Saudi Arabia’s Islamic University of Madinah. After a new payment of Tk 530,000, Bahar sent Kakon to Saudi Arabia on Dec 4. But, instead of giving Kakon a job, he was detained in a room with his brother, the family said.
When the family learnt of this, Bahar then offered to take Mosharraf to Saudi Arabia on an Umrah visa to visit his sons. In mid-December, Mosharraf accompanied Bahar to Saudi Arabia.
When Mosharraf arrived, he learnt from his sons that they were working as delivery drivers, were not being fed properly, and were being kept in a small room. He returned to Bangladesh on Dec 22. Bahar stayed, saying he was arranging the paperwork for the two men.
Mosharraf claims that Bahar also handed him a polythene-wrapped bag to take to Dhaka. He said he did not know the contents of the bag. When immigration police searched him at the Saudi Airport, Mosharraf says they took out a small parcel inside the bag and let him go.
He says Bahar came to visit him the day after he returned to Bangladesh and demanded the parcel inside the bag.
“When I informed him that immigration police had kept the parcel, he claimed that it contained Tk 1.3 million worth of gold and demanded the money back. He threatened me several times, saying my sons would suffer in Saudi if I did not pay.”
Mosharraf filed a general diary with the Gazipur Sadar Police Station over the incident.
On May 9, a group of thugs with weapons allegedly came to find Mosharraf. He was not at home at the time and the goons allegedly took Mosharraf’s elderly father Abul Kashem Lombari hostage and left while threatening to kill his two sons. Abul Kashem was later rescued with a call to the emergency police number 999.
Mosharraf said that Kakon and Sagor are his only two sons and he had hoped to send them to Canada in consideration of their futures.
He said a Bangladeshi national called the family around midnight on Wednesday to inform him that his sons had been killed.
The Bangladesh embassy in Saudi Arabia later informed them that the two brothers had gone inside a flat in Dammam at 7am on Tuesday.
“In the afternoon, the landlord saw blood seeping underneath the door to the flat and called the police. Police have identified a man named Manju from CCTV footage,” Mosharraf said.
Mosharraf believes that Bahar ordered the suspect to kill his sons and has asked for the government’s help in returning their bodies to Bangladesh.
