DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed Selim Pradhan, who is the mastermind behind online illegal casino business, and his two associates in five days of remand each in a case filed for money laundering.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasin Ahsan Chowdhry gave the order on Sunday (October 13).
The two associates were named as Aktharuzzaman and Rokan.
Earlier on Oct 9, Investigation officer and CID inspector Shahidul Islam Khan produced the trio before court and pleaded to place them on 10-day remand. Later, the court set Oct 13 for remand hearing.
Another Dhaka court on October 3 placed the trio in four days of remand each in a case filed for narcotics control act.
RAB detained Selim Prodhan from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport just the moment before he was about to fly to Bangkok on September 30.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on October 2 filed two cases, one for money laundering and another for possessing narcotics, against Selim with Gulshan Police Station.
A RAB team raided two offices of Selim Prodhan and seized Tk. 29 lakh in cash, currencies of 23 countries worth over Tk. 77 lakh, and 32 cheques of 23 banks worth Tk. 8 crore, 48 bottles of illegal foreign liquor, four laptops and two deer skins.
RAB said Selim used to run online casino business. Money earned from that illegal business would be deposited to three gateways. Later, Selim would draw out the money and deposit them in three different bank accounts.
He used to send the money abroad by his men or by other means, even to London.
BDST 1441 HRS, OCT 13, 2019
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