As many as 122 passports with visas, taken by two Baira-enlisted manpower export companies, have gone missing from the office of the state-run the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).
BMET authorities said they were trying to trace the documents.
Secretary General Ali Haider of Baira, a forum of manpower exporters, told journalists the passports had been missing since Sunday.
It has been learnt that 83 of them were for Oman, 10 for Bahrain, 23 for Qatar, and three for Italy, said Ishaq Khan, Managing Director of Tower Trade International, one of the two manpower export companies.
Tower Trade and International Recruiting Agency had taken the passports to the BMET office for visa processing.
To unearth the mystery, police are investigating the video footages captured in closed-circuit cameras.
BMET Director Abdul Latif Khan said, “We are trying our best to retrieve the missing passports.”
Ishaq Khan said in the footage one person was seen taking away the passports in a bag, but he could not be identified from the obscured picture.
A case has been lodged in connection with the missing passports with Ramna Police Station whose Sub-Inspector Mizanur Rahman is investigating the case.
According to the case diary, the person concerned had gone to an adjoining room for a few minutes leaving behind the bag containing the passports in one room in the BMET office. When he returned the bag was not there.
He said another bag was recovered. However, there was no document in it.
The police official was hoping to solve the case based on the video footages.
He said it appeared that some other agency or other party might have taken the passports just for harassment. – bdnews24.com
