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STAFF REPORTERGUWAHATI: A fifth trickster involved in scamming farmers by squeezing at least Rs 20 crore from them through unscrupulous means was caught on Friday. The accused Rubul Ali alias Kamrul Hassan was arrested by BIEO (Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offence) on a tip-off from a secret source at Supermarket. In the name of this cooperative society, at least Rs 20 crore was collected from different farmers through alluring tactics. The cooperative society promised poor farmers of 90 per cent subsidized grants for purchasing tractors, getting established with fishery, piggery, poultry, dairy etc. The alluring percentage of subsidies led poor farmers to invest their hard-earned money in the cooperative society so as to get themselves established with dividend-paying farming business..