Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)-Police in Dhaka have arrested a young British man of Bangladeshi origin on suspicion of recruiting volunteers to fight with Islamic State jihadists in Syria.
The suspect, who has been identified as Samiun Rahman, had been recruiting would-be IS fighters in the capital Dhaka and in Sylhet, in the north of the country, where his family are believed to have relatives.
He was arrested in the Kamalapur area of Dhaka and is believed to have arrived in the country six months ago to scout for potential recruits, reports The Telegraph.
His arrest came two days after detectives revealed they were searching for a London-based ISIS agent who had had recruited a number of young men who were arrested in recent weeks.
They first learned of a 24 year old British man from East London recruiting Islamic State fighters when they arrested seven young Islamic militants, including an associate of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, the 21-year-old student behind the failed 2012 attack on New York’s Federal Reserve Bank.
Three alleged recruits were arrested last week, including the son of a retired judge and the other the son of a senior civil servant.
They had been told they would travel to Syria via Turkey posing as followers of the Tabligh Jamaat, a moderate Islamic religious study group.
BBN/JF-29Sept14-12:00pm (BST)