G4S money theft \\\'mastermind\\\' held

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Wednesday arrested the alleged 'mastermind' behind the theft of Tk 30 million from the Chittagong office of Group Four Securities (G4S), an international security provider. Shahidul Haq Shantanu, 24, was nabbed from Rangamit’s Sadar Upazila around 7am today, said RAB-7 Staff Officer ASP Sohel Mahmud. ‘The details will be provided at a media briefing to be held in the RAB-7 office at Chittagong’s Patenga,’ he said adding that Shantanu was the ‘mastermind’ of the theft. The theft issue was disclosed in the early hours of Sunday. The security provider’s Senior Manager Tarek Mansur filed a case with Chittagong’s Khulshi Police Station after the stealing, which was done by a spare key of the vault containing the money. The detectives along with Sadarghat and Khulshi Police Station’s investigators did the investigation. Early on Tuesday, police recovered Tk 29.9 million from the house of one Md Bashir, 28. Police had then said that the mastermind Shantunu managed to flee as the news of Bashir's arrest with the money was reported promptly by the media, according to bdnews24.com.