Faridpur AL leader Jafar Iqbal shown arrested in Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case

Awami League's Faridpur town unit organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Haroon Mandal was shown arrested today in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Jafar is also cousin of Sajjad Hossain alias Barkat, the principal accused of the case and also former general secretary of AL's Faridpur town unit.

Metropolitan Magistrate Masud Ur Rahman passed the order after Uttam Kumar Biswas, assistant superintendent of police of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and also the investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court with a prayer for showing him arrested in the case.

Jafar was arrested on December 24 from Faridpur.

Apart from him, eleven other accused including Sajjad were earlier arrested from different places on different dates.

At present, 10 of the accused including Sajjad and Jafar are now in jail while two others are on bail. 

Sajjad and five others have already given confessional statements before magistrates.

SM Miraj Al Mahmud, a CID inspector, lodged the case against the two cousins under the money laundering act with Kafrul Police Station on June 26.

According to the case statement, Sajjad and Jafar amassed huge amount of wealth after they won contracts from various government departments in the district, including LGED, BRTA and roads and highways, through manipulation since 2010.

They were also allegedly involved in drug smuggling and land grabbing. The two became owners of around 23 buses, several trucks and cars.