The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has moved a Dhaka court seeking a 10-day remand for online casino kingpin Salim Prodhan under its custody, on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
ACC Deputy Commissioner Gulshan Anwar filed a petition with the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court on Thursday, said ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.
The court fixed November 3 for a hearing in presence of the accused, Pranab added.
On October 27, the ACC filed a case against Salim with the anti-graft watchdog's Integrated District Office 1 in Dhaka on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk12.27 crore.
On October 13, a Dhaka court remanded Salim and his associates Md Aktaruzzaman and Md Roman, in a case filed under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is investigating this case.
Earlier, on October 3, another Dhaka court had granted police four days to interrogate the trio in a narcotics case.
Salim was arrested from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on September 30, over his alleged involvement in running an online casino business.
Later that night, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided Salim’s office and residence in Gulshan, and arrested his associates Aktaruzzaman, Roman and Masum.
RAB had also recovered 48 bottles of foreign liquor, Tk2,905,000 in cash, foreign currencies from 23 different countries worth around Tk7,763,023, 12 passports, 32 cheque books of 13 banks, one large server used in game operating, four laptops, and two pieces of deer hide.
A RAB mobile court then jailed Salim for six months for possessing the illegal deer hides.
Two days later, RAB had filed the two cases against him at Gulshan police station.