On January 9, a group of five operatives of Jamaat-e Islami (JeI) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), identified as Mohammad Noor Un Nabi, Afsar Uddin Roman, Abu Saeed Saju, Swadhin Mia, and Abdus Salam, were arrested on the accusation of spreading rumors about Islami Bank through social media campaigns by Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in Dhaka, reports Dhaka Tribune. Harun-or-Rashid the Deputy Director of Bangladesh Bank said that “When the bank was later freed from the occupation of the anti-liberation forces, the JeI-ICS gang started spreading rumors about the management of the bank. The main objective of this gang was to destabilize the country's financial sector and bring the government into disrepair.” He further added that Urging people not to be influenced by these propagandas, and currently Bangladesh has sufficient foreign exchange reserves. The bankruptcy of banks and financial institutions is a rumor. “Do not panic and withdraw your deposits from banks.”