Chinese national killed in Jessore

A Chinese businessperson residing in Jessore was killed on Wednesday allegedly by his employees at the warehouse of his business in New Town area of the town.

Chang Hi Sung, 42, was murdered around 11:30am on Wednesday allegedly by two of his employees -- Nazmul Hassan Parvez, 24, son of Mujibur Rahman, and Muktadir Rahman Raju, 21, nephew of Nazmul and son of Rafiqul Islam, said Illias Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station.

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Both the arrestees, who are from Chakpara village in Netrakona, were detained by police and confessed to have murdered their employer during primary investigation, he added.

Nazmul, an interpreter for Chang, and Muktadir attacked Chang with iron rods and stuffed his mouth with tissue papers before strangling him to death, the OC said.

Chang, residing in the Jail Road area in Jessore, had been running his import business of electric autorickshaw batteries over the past couple of years and he rented the warehouse about seven months back, he said, adding that Chang frequently travelled from Jessore to Dhaka where his wife Li Ing lives.

"The Chinese businessman was beaten up and strangled. Among the two arrestees, Nazmul, during primary interrogation, confessed that they had committed the murder for money," Anisur Rahman, superintendent of police in Jessore, told The Daily Star.

Nazmul admitted that they had beaten up Chang with iron rods, the SP added.   

Speaking with this correspondent, Chang's driver Mamun claimed Chang rebuked Nazmul and Muktadir over an overpriced bill they had submitted to him, and that incident might have prompted the duo to kill Chang. 

"On Wednesday night, Li Ing called her husband, but she found his phone turned off. She then called Nazmul and asked him where his boss was. Nazmul told her that Chang had been missing," said OC Illias.

She then asked Nazmul to go to the local police station and report her husband's disappearance. In the meantime, she contacted the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka and left Dhaka for Jessore the same night, he added.

Police detained Nazmul as he was acting suspicious when he came to the police station to report his employer's disappearance and they later arrested his nephew Muktadir from near the warehouse.

Yesterday, at around 9:30am, the police went to the warehouse along with Chang's wife and found his body lying on the floor of a toilet on the ground floor, Illias said.  

The corpse was preserved at Jessore Medical College after the completion of autopsy and a murder case was filed with Kotwali Police Station, he added.