Dhaka: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 11 people from the capital Dhaka, Khulna and Rajshahi on Friday for their alleged involvement in providing financial assistance to militancy.

The arrestees are known as Al Mamun, 20, Al Amin, 23, Faisal alias Tuhin, 37, Moin Khan, 27, Md Jahedullah alias Jahid, 29, Al Amin, 23, Tony Nath, 40, and Helel Uddin, 27.

Briefing reporters at RAB Media Centre of Karwanbazar in the city on Saturday, Director (Media) of RAB headquarters Mufti Mahmood Khan said the elite force had information that iBacs Ltd, a UK based company, here was involved in terror financing.

The company, which was established in 2005, was shutdown in 25 December of 2015 as its then chairman Shiful Hoque Sujan was killed in Syria due to air attack on December 10 in the same year. Then Ibacs Ltd head office of UK was also shutdown for its alleged involvement in terror financing.

It may mentioned that during a joint drives comprising members of Intelligence and law enforcement agencies, Nahid along with US$ 50,000 was arrested in December 4 in 2015. The money was supposed to give killed top New JMB leader Tamim Chowdhury.

A case was filed accusing seven people, including Nahid, Ataul Hoque Sabuj, his brother Shiful Hoque Sujan and their father Hasnat, who later died under detention in jail, in this connection.

After shutdown iBacs ltd, most of its employees established new company "Wahmi Technology" in Dhaka, while Ataul established another company named ISYCTEL in Spain .

Based on secret information, several teams of Rab-4 carried out drives in Dhaka, Khulna and Rajshahi and arrested the 11 people. The drives were carried out between 5-8 pm, said Mufti Mahmood Khan.

Among them, Nahid was arrested from Rajshahi, Tajul Islam and Tony from Khulna, and remaining eight people were arrested from the Wahmi technology office of Pallabi in Dhaka.

In the same times, Ataul Hoque Sabuj, owner of ISYCTEL, was also arrested in Spain by members of law enforcement agencies there Friday in connection with militancy, he said.

Scrutinizing documents of WAHMI, ISYCTEL has been sending money to WAHMI from Spain regularly. Among the sending funds, around 47 percent was expended, while remaining money was allegedly spent in militancy.