A Dhaka court on Monday sent former national footballer Kaiser Hamid to jail rejecting his bail petition in connection with a case filed on charges of embezzling investor funds.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid gave the order after Hamid’s lawyer Abu Sayed submitted a bail petition seeking bail in the case.
Investigating Officer Md Shamsuddin, a Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inspector, brought Hamid to the court with a plea to send him to jail.
After the hearing, the court rejected the bail petition and ordered Hamid to jail.
CID police on Sunday arrested Kaiser Hamid from the Elephant Road area in the capital, following an arrest warrant issued against him in the case.
The case was filed with Banani police station in 2014 against Kaiser by several people who had invested money in Kaiser’s company, New Way Multipurpose Cooperative Society, but never got any returns on their investments.
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Kaiser Hamid was a soccer player. He became well known in the 1980s and 1990s as a central defender for Mohammedan Sporting Club in Dhaka’s domestic League. He received the Bangladesh National Sports Award in 2003.
A towering central defender, Kaisar Hamid Kaiser was captain of the national football team for many years.
His mother Rani Hamid is one of the greatest chess players of Bangladesh. His father, former army officer Abdul Haim, was also a sports organiser.
Soon after retiring from football in the early 90s, Kaiser entered politics. He ran on a Zaker Party ticket in the national elections.
In 2008, he was sued for attempted murder having reportedly hit a doctor of a state-owned hospital on the head with a pistol.
Kaiser once again made news headlines in 2011, when police detained former Nigerian footballer Emeka Ezeugo in possession of Kaiser’s licensed revolver.