Dhaka: Detectives arrested a suspect over the murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella from Benapole border area on Wednesday night as he was trying to flee from the country.

The arrested is MA Matin, whose name appeared in the confessional statement of Vagne Russel, who was arrested along with three others from different areas in the capital earlier on 26 October last in connection with the murder, according to a senior official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

Based on the information gleaned from Vagne Russel during the primary investigation, a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted the drive in Benapole border area and arrested Matin at about 11:30pm as he was trying to leave the country, added the official.

Cesare Tavella, 50, Project Manager for PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, was shot to death by some miscreants in the city’s Gulshan area on 28 September.

A case was filed with Gulshan Police Station on the day. It was transferred to DB police on 29 September.