CID arrests Facebook group admin

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Bangladesh Police has arrested the administrator of a Facebook group on charges of online fraud, cyber extortion and misuse of information technology related to ticket sales for Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's upcoming concert in Dhaka, reports BSS.

The arrested suspect has been identified as Md. Bakhtiar Abid Khan, 21, a resident of Malibagh Chowdhurypara in the capital.

According to the CID, concert organizers Event Sajai and Main Stage Inc. are scheduled to host Atif Aslam's concert on July 24 at the 300 Feet Cricketers Academy in Purbachal.

The organisers partnered with GetMyTicket.live to sell tickets and launched promotional activities through Main Stage Inc.'s FB page on July 8. The organisers allegedly discovered that an FB group named Bangladesh Concert & Event Connects was promoting ticket sales using images of tickets from a previously cancelled concert.