3 arrested in Bangladesh for merely trading Bitcoin

[misterjo]

the news is very confusing, it is not known if they were arrested for using bitcoin or because they were criminals, if they committed a crime it seems good to have arrested them

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[franciscoDC]

When a country declares something illegal, it becomes an offence to be part of it or engage in it even if it is legal in neighbouring countries. Well I hope they get released soon and the country realizes bitcoin is here to serve a great purpose and should be adopted for use. Hope the Bangladesh government changes her decision about bitcoin soon enough

I agree,and they are also offended the person who use bitcoin i think they need deep perception about what is bitcoin because im pretty sure that it give and it bring us a better future for our daily transactions and also the future of our investing.

[Em00n01]

As far as I know they were related to some scams by using a website called paidbd. Besides, they used to play bet. Being cheated from them someone reported about them to the police.

[Coin-Desk]

Yes, I see the news that only 3 arrests in Bangladesh for Bitcoin trading. In Bangladesh, there is a need to comply with some rules in online trading, perhaps they violate the cyber laws of Bangladesh for which they have been arrested. Even the government of Bangladesh did not approve trading on the cryptocurrency, but they started trading commercially for which they were arrested.

[dificanovi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KncarNpmGzY

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2019/04/27/bogra-cyber-police-arrests-three-members-of-cryptocurrency-gang

Bogra cyber police arrests three members of cryptocurrency gang

Police found two of their used websites and blocked one
 
The cyber police in Bogra has arrested three members of a cryptocurrency gang.

They seized two laptops, 16 mobile phones, and 20 SIM cards from the detainees after the arrest on Thursday.

Police conducted raids in Habiganj and Lakshmipur for two days and arrested them and brought them to Bogra.

Police found two of their used websites and blocked one.

Bogra Detective Branch (DB) of Police SI Shafiul Alam Shafiq filed a case against them with Bogra Sadar police station under section 1(B) of the Digital Security Act, 2018.

The arrestees are: Shah Md Tanim, 22, Sohel Mia, 27, and Maruf Billah, 25.

The investigating officer of the case, Cyber Police Inspector Emran Mahmud Tuhin sought eight-days’remand after producing them before Bogra Judicial Magistrate Court on Friday afternoon.

Bogra Superintendent of Police (SP) Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan in a press briefing said: “The virtual currency bitcoin is illegal in Bangladesh. However, the use of cryptocurrency is increasing day by day.

“The gang sold bitcoins and other forms of web money to their particular customers.

“Digital currency transactions are functioned online where all information is kept secret. This type of digital currency is called cryptocurrency. “

 Cryptography method is used for bitcoin exchange and the code used in this method is quite impossible to figure out, the SP added.

I think there are other people who know their work and find out the website where they transact crypto currency, after which he reports to the police to arrest those who use crypto currencies.
besides that I also think that they are not careful in making transactions so that their whereabouts are known.

[MakeMoneyBtc]

It's stupid to think that they've been arrested just because they simply trade cryptocurrencies and did it in a fair way. But we don't have all the information necessary to comment on this case because we don't know exactly what are the governmental laws regarding the trade of cryptocurrencies in Bangladesh. They probably violated some laws or made some illegal transactions and that's the real reason why they were arrested.

[Seeker#9]

According to the law enforcers, virtual currency or bitcoin is illegal in their country and that is according to their Digital Security Act law. It is not clear if the group committed other violation aside from selling bitcoins. Bangladesh is still one of the few countries that strictly prohibits its citizen from using any virtual currency. It will take time before this nation allows bitcoin because they might consider it as threat to their economy.

[Sithara007]

the news is very confusing, it is not known if they were arrested for using bitcoin or because they were criminals, if they committed a crime it seems good to have arrested them

Read the OP again. It is very clear. The arrested are a bunch of youth, who were trading Bitcoins for fiat currency. They were not involved in any other shady activity (unless the notoriously corrupt Bangladeshi police decides to frame them on made up charges). They were arrested for using Bitcoin and I guess the purpose was to frighten the hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin users in the country, so that they'll give up trading in Bitcoin. That said, I don't know how effective these actions can be.

[rdbase]

“The gang sold bitcoins and other forms of web money to their particular customers.
“Digital currency transactions are functioned online where all information is kept secret. This type of digital currency is called cryptocurrency. “
 Cryptography method is used for bitcoin exchange and the code used in this method is quite impossible to figure out, the SP added.

The funny thing that i found in the article is that, the authorities are claiming that it is impossible to figure out the transactions and yet they found those transactions and arrested three people. Are they trying to claim that they are intelligent enough and they can decipher anything which are quite impossible and i am not sure what all stories they are telling. The people who got arrested might have done something fishy, if not they wont get arrested like that and i am sure there are many people who are trading bitcoin from Bangladesh for years and now they are claiming that they arrested for trading bitcoin.

The issue is that those 3 arrested committed other crime apart, they can not be arrested for just trading bitcon or cryptocurrency because from the news it clear there were operating a fake site which is related to crypto which can also be used to fraud others which is illegal before the law.

As far as I know they were related to some scams by using a website called paidbd. Besides, they used to play bet. Being cheated from them someone reported about them to the police.

Well if this were one of the websites they took down then yes they did deserve to be arrested because they were scam artists which unfortunately saw an easy way in using bitcoin for a way of accepting payments to facilitate their scheme.

[TheKeyLongThumbI]

They were robbers who were robbing innocent people. What is so bad about that? The title made me think that innocent people were arrested. It is a known fact that Bitcoin is not completely anonymous in nature which is why it is possible to trace BTC TX to an extent.

KYC process makes it even more easier to trace a transaction in this aspect.

Then OP's title is very misleading. If I just not take time to read much more details in this story then I will only think that the 3 arrested shouldn't experience like that. This is the kind of news that triggers FUD in our space but when you try to decipher it, they criminals are just using btc to gain more advantage on their acts.

[Rahman11]

Yes in bangladesh bitcoin activities or other digital currencies are totally illegal by their banking law! but they are can do recharge mobile phone balance by bitcoin! bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency and bangladeshi bangking law not support decentralised currency like bitcoin! you can done arrest by bd law for use bitcoin in Bangladesh! it's problem of bitcoin to spreading worldwide!

[SirLancelot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KncarNpmGzY

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2019/04/27/bogra-cyber-police-arrests-three-members-of-cryptocurrency-gang

Bogra cyber police arrests three members of cryptocurrency gang

Police found two of their used websites and blocked one
 
The cyber police in Bogra has arrested three members of a cryptocurrency gang.

They seized two laptops, 16 mobile phones, and 20 SIM cards from the detainees after the arrest on Thursday.

Police conducted raids in Habiganj and Lakshmipur for two days and arrested them and brought them to Bogra.

Police found two of their used websites and blocked one.

Bogra Detective Branch (DB) of Police SI Shafiul Alam Shafiq filed a case against them with Bogra Sadar police station under section 1(B) of the Digital Security Act, 2018.

The arrestees are: Shah Md Tanim, 22, Sohel Mia, 27, and Maruf Billah, 25.

The investigating officer of the case, Cyber Police Inspector Emran Mahmud Tuhin sought eight-days’remand after producing them before Bogra Judicial Magistrate Court on Friday afternoon.

Bogra Superintendent of Police (SP) Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan in a press briefing said: “The virtual currency bitcoin is illegal in Bangladesh. However, the use of cryptocurrency is increasing day by day.

“The gang sold bitcoins and other forms of web money to their particular customers.

“Digital currency transactions are functioned online where all information is kept secret. This type of digital currency is called cryptocurrency. “

 Cryptography method is used for bitcoin exchange and the code used in this method is quite impossible to figure out, the SP added.

I don't really think that the gang did anything wrong. Bangladesh does not seem much developed nation at least in terms of cryptocurrencies as the individuals there are been arrested for selling bitcoins/coins to their specific customers. This could be a legal job if you have license and permission from the government but there is nothing wrong here which needs to be arrested.

These kind of news makes a lot of peoples owning mass amount of bitcoins fear from the centralized system and it makes the price for bitcoins go a bit downer. I am sure that the court will charge a number of penalties from these arrested individuals which can also be stated as "unknown Tax"

[Rahman11]

They seized two laptops, 16 mobile phones, and 20 SIM cards from the detainees after the arrest on Thursday!

That doesn't look like they were "merely" trading in cryptos. I am sure there is more behind the entire story! A normal trader would not use such huge amounts of mobile phones and sim cards. They must have done some kind of illegal money transmissions which can be classified as "Laundering"!

Yes this point is absolutely right! normal bitcoin user trader would not use such kind of huge amount of accessories! anyone can trade bitcoin via only a mobile phone or only a laptop, desktop! I think they are involve with huge amount of money laundering and probably other money transfer related criminal activities also!

[futile-resistance]

“The gang sold bitcoins and other forms of web money to their particular customers.
“Digital currency transactions are functioned online where all information is kept secret. This type of digital currency is called cryptocurrency. “
 Cryptography method is used for bitcoin exchange and the code used in this method is quite impossible to figure out, the SP added.

The funny thing that i found in the article is that, the authorities are claiming that it is impossible to figure out the transactions and yet they found those transactions and arrested three people. Are they trying to claim that they are intelligent enough and they can decipher anything which are quite impossible and i am not sure what all stories they are telling. The people who got arrested might have done something fishy, if not they wont get arrested like that and i am sure there are many people who are trading bitcoin from Bangladesh for years and now they are claiming that they arrested for trading bitcoin.

The issue is that those 3 arrested committed other crime apart, they can not be arrested for just trading bitcon or cryptocurrency because from the news it clear there were operating a fake site which is related to crypto which can also be used to fraud others which is illegal before the law.

As far as I know they were related to some scams by using a website called paidbd. Besides, they used to play bet. Being cheated from them someone reported about them to the police.

Well if this were one of the websites they took down then yes they did deserve to be arrested because they were scam artists which unfortunately saw an easy way in using bitcoin for a way of accepting payments to facilitate their scheme.

Illegal activities needs to be arrested and there is nothing which can save the criminals then. But arresting individuals who are selling cryptocurrencies to a group of customers is not really something which could be accepted. OP should mention the website which was been seized by the Bangladesh police.

I have not really heard about paidbd but if they were the ones who scammed peoples then for sure it might be something which needs to be arrested. Arresting such peoples might perhaps decrease the amount of scam projects in the current markets. There really are a number of scam projects here in these markets which strictly needs to shut down.

[proTECH77]

As far as I know they were related to some scams by using a website called paidbd. Besides, they used to play bet. Being cheated from them someone reported about them to the police.

If this is true then they where arrested based on their crime committed and not because they used Bitcoin. Criminal art is criminal art and when its be committed while trying to secure Bitcoin illegally, then its a crime to humanity and is punishable under any criminal law in the state. Let them face the music.

[clarkgeneral86]

Surely this will be the worst day for three people arrested in Bangladesh. I think the anonymity behind Bitcoin's name I think is also captured in the future. So much worse and I think they should be punished. If we don't read the information carefully, we will misunderstand Bitcoin traders as we are caught and banned by the government.

[morrisgonzalez]

Yes, I heard the news that only 3 arrests in Bangladesh for Bitcoin trading. I know as much as Bitcoin Trading is not legally valid in Bangladesh so they are arrested on the basis of Bitcoin trading in Bangladesh. There are also rules regarding these cryptocurrencies in Bangladesh and there are some restrictions that they are arrested for violating.

[Nnuego]

The news is abit confusing. Were they arrested cos bitcoin was illegal in their country or they got arrested because they are trading cryptocurrency. Nevertheless the should accept bitcoin cos it has come to stay

[kr105]

The news is vague, it's not clear if those people arrested only because they trade Bitcoin or also involved on another criminal activity.
Nevertheless, they've seen it coming since Bitcoin is illegal on Bangladesh.

Yeah that’s right. At first, i thought they’re just innocent people who got arrested for nothing. But apparently the story is different. Even if they’re not cyber criminals or something similar to that, Bitcoin use is illegal in their country. So i’m not surprised they end up this way. In the end everyone should follow the rules by law.

[izanagi narukami]

If Bangladesh's government already legalize the law against crypto and they still using crypto, it's become their responsibility for keep using it.

As I read the news, the government want to prevent any criminal attempt especially in digital transaction and bitcoin become their favorite option !