Five placed on 5-day remand in Ctg

A Chittagong court yesterday placed five accused on a five-day remand each in a case filed in connection with the seizure of over 2.71 crore Indian rupees from inside a container in Chittagong Port on September 21.

The court of Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Naurin Akter Kakon passed the order after police produced the accused before it. 

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The accused are clearing and forwarding (C&F) firm Flash International Ltd Chairman ASM Sayem alias Shamim, its Managing Director Asad Ullah, another C&F Firm Nahar Trading Complex's Director Md Ahammad Ullah Talukder Rintu, the container's consignee UAE expatriate Shaheduzzaman's younger brother Towhidul Alam and Sheikh Saber, a tea boy of the port dock.

"This is an organised crime and several syndicates of home and abroad might have links with the rupee smuggling," said Assistant Commissioner (Prosecution) Nirmolendu Bikash Chakraborty.

He added that they needed more time to collect information about the source and destination of the smuggled rupees.    

On September 21, the officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate sealed the container off after finding the Indian currency in four out of 165 packages in the container.  On September 16, the container arrived in Chittagong Port from the UAE via Colombo.

UAE expatriate Shaheduzzaman, who is on the run, had sent the container to Chittagong declaring the container containing household commodities.