Tk 2,000 crore laundering: Former AL unit general secretary placed on 3-day remand

A Dhaka court today placed former Faridpur town unit Awami League general secretary and his brother on a three-days fresh remand each in connection with a case filed for laundering Tk 2,000 crore abroad.

The accused are: Sajjad Hossain alias Barkat, former general secretary of the AL unit and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel, former president of Faridpur Press Club.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order after Uttam Kumar Biswas, assistant superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before his court with a 10-day fresh remand prayer.

In the remand prayer, the IO said the two brothers needed to be remanded to gather more information about the moneyand to know whereabouts of the others responsible, the IO added.

The defence submitted a petition seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand prayer.

After hearing both sides, the magistrate rejected their bail petition and issued the remand order.

They were produced before the court on completion of their two-day remand in the case filed with Kafrul Police Station on June 26.

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 7, police arrested nine people, including Sajjad and Rubel, from different parts of Faridpur town for their alleged involvement in attacking a house of one Subal Chandra in the town's Goalchamat area on May 16.

According to the case statement, the duo 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 trading and grabbing land. The two became owners of around 23 buses, and several trucks and luxurious cars.