Staff Reporter: Even in the last four years, Bangladeshis living in the United States have not been able to forget about that horrible Eid fraud. A few months before Eid-ul-Fitr on June 25, 2017, the World Wide Travel Service in New York took away the joy of Eid from more than two thousand expatriate Bangladeshis from 10 states including New York. When we remember the horrible Eid cheating, there are still many families crying and wailing. they are disappointed.
On Eid-ul-Fitr held on June 25, 2017, more than two thousand Bangladeshi expatriates who wanted to go to Bangladesh to celebrate Eid with their families and go on summer vacation have been deceived by buying plane tickets from the owner of the World Wide Travel Service. Owner Nazmul Huda took about 24 lakh dollars or 19 crore 20 lakh taka for the plane ticket.
The company, called World Wide Travel Services in Jackson Heights, New York, has been selling tickets to various airlines to expatriates for a long time. A few months before Eid-ul-Fitr 2017, it announced the sale of cheap tickets with the announcement of price reduction. As a result, expatriates from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia, Washington DC, Massachusetts and Texas are reluctant to buy tickets. And Nazmul Huda, the owner of World Wide Travel Services in Jackson Heights, took advantage of that golden opportunity.
He asked passengers from outside the state of New York to deposit the ticket price to his bank account number. It is alleged that he embezzled 24 lakh dollars or 19 crore 20 lakh rupees by not booking tickets for the flight at the request of the passengers. Hundreds of expatriate Bangladeshis returned home from different airports two weeks before Eid due to non-booking of tickets on the plane. All the families living in the country were deprived of the Eid festival. Finding no way out, these passengers kept looking for Nazmul Huda, the owner of the travel service. At that time, the passengers could not find any owner or employee of the World Wide Travel Service.
Thousands of passengers were pressured by relatives and friends of the owner of the World Wide Travel Service to return the tickets price, but Nazmul Huda was forced to return about half of the tickets by a certain date, but only half of the passengers have not received their tickets price back.
Nazmul Huda’s village home is in Matlab upazila of Chandpur district. He is the brother of the late Nurul Huda, advisor to the BNP chairperson and former state minister for establishment. Aware expatriates are claiming that Nazmul Huda, the owner of Biman’s only travel agent World Wide Service, is responsible for the closure of Bangladesh Biman’s Dhaka-New York route due to financial losses.
The owner of the World Wide Travel Services in Jackson Heights is rumored to have fled New York, but he still lives in Staten Island, New York. Their ticket price was not refunded. Bangladeshis living in the United States have not been able to forget about that horrible Eid fraud.
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