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Police’s detective branch (DB) on Tuesday (31 October) have arrested the former lieutenant general Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardi, who allegedly prompted Bangladeshi US national Mian Zahidul Islam Arefy to address a BNP press briefing identifying himself as a so-called “adviser” to US President Joe Biden.
“We have arrested him from Savar and brought him to our DB office for initial interrogation and subsequent legal procedures,” DB chief Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid told.
The former lieutenant general was arrested two days after police have arrested Mian Zahidul Islam Arefy from Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport as he was trying to depart Bangladesh.
On Saturday (28 October) Suhrawardi accompanied Arefy to the BNP’s central Naya Paltan office where he spoke infront of a group of reporters alongside party activists, claiming himself as a close Biden advisor and “member of (US) national democratic committee”.
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