Faridpur BCL president remanded in Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case

A Dhaka court today placed Nishan Mahmud Shamim, president of Faridpur district unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), on a three-day remand in connection with a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Shamim (31), son of Kamal Uddin Munshi of Mordha Alipur of Faridpur area, was arrested from the Uttara area in Dhaka yesterday morning.

Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah passed the order after Uttam Kumar Biswas, assistant superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced him before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.

In the remand prayer, the IO said Shamim was directly involved with laundering money. Moreover, two brothers -- Sajjad Hossain, former general secretary of Awami League (Faridpur unit) and Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel, former president of Faridpur Press Club -- gave confessional statements where they implicated Shamim in the incident. So he needs to be remanded to gather information about the money laundering, the IO added.

Defence, however, submitted a petition seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand prayer.

After hearing both sides, the magistrate turned down his bail petition and issued the remand order.

Earlier six other AL leaders of Faridpur town unit were placed for different terms of remand in the same case.

On July 24, Sajjad Hossain and Imtiaz Hasan gave confessional statements before a magistrate narrating their involvement in laundering money.

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