Acting on a tipoff that a Bangladeshi student studying in Bengaluru was renting out bikes illegally to foreigners, police questioned him and found that a few of his fellow nationals were using him as a front for their illegal activities and transactions.
 

Police have now taken a complaint from, Md Noman Hameed, 24, a resident of Kacharakanahalli in Banaswadi, and registered a case

against four men running these illegal activities. His accounts were getting money from abroad which would be transferred to his Bangladeshi bosses.

Hameed told Banaswadi police on March 14 that he believed the transactions in his bank accounts were only related to renting bikes.

He was being paid Rs 8,000 per month for maintaining the record of transactions in bank accounts and renting his account for the accused's transactions.

Police said the transactions were related to not only bike rentals and could have been used for more illegal activities.

The suspects are Umer Arif and Fahim Ahmed from Bangladesh, Sudan national Abubakar and Ahmed Fatih, whose nationality is not known. Hameed, a BBA student in a private college in Banaswadi, has been staying in a flat in the area since 2022.

Umer and Fahim, both relatives of Hameed, contacted him in 2021 when he was in Bangladesh.