Once a member of the Destiny Group, Al Amin Prodhan dreamed of securing a place in the list of the top richest people around the globe.
Once Destiny Group was sealed off by the government, he started multi level marketing through his unlicensed SPC World Express which acted like Destiny.
He even succeeded and allegedly embezzled Tk268 crore since January this year, claimed Additional Commissioner of Police AKM Hafiz Akhtar of Detective Branch (DB) of DMP.
However, he was eventually apprehended by Cyber and Special Crime of Dhaka Metropolitan Police [DMP], said Hafiz.
Police claimed to have arrested five more persons—the executive officer Md Jasim, manager Md Manik Mia and Md Tanvir, assistant manager Md Pavel Sarker and clerk Nadim Md Yasir Ullah.
During their apprehension, a Harrier car, two pick-up vans and few other things have been seized.
People could download their app from google play and to become a member through the app, everybody needed to to pay Tk1,200 via mobile banking.
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In return, members would be provided with a few commodities like shampoo, face wash, rice, and chillies.
In 10 months, the organization managed to involve 2,225,000 people, including 500,000 expatriates from 17 countries.
Police said, such a kind of business is illegal in Bangladesh.
However, police have got eight bank accounts from the arrestees.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed two cases against Destiny Group officials, including MD Rafiqul Amin and Director Lt Gen (retd) Md Harun-or-Rashid, on July 31, 2012, accusing them of money laundering and embezzlement.
On July 31 the same year, ACC filed a case with Kalabagan police station against 12 Destiny Group officials for laundering about Tk2,106.64 crore out of Destiny Tree Plantation Project.
The ACC claimed that the company laundered a total of Tk3,285 crore, cheating investors out of their fortunes.