A Chittagong court yesterday sent Elias, who was nabbed with Tk57.92 lakh from Chittagong Court premises on October 14, to jail in a money laundering case.
The court of Sixth Metropolitan Magistrate Faridul Alam passed the order when police produced him before the court seeking a five-day remand.
The court last Thursday asked Kotwali police station Officer-in-Charge AKM Mohiuddin Selim and Sub-Inspector (SI) Mohammad Kamruzzaman to submit their statements why the arrestee was produced before the court under section 54 of Criminal Procedure Code despite lodging a particular case against him and why the arrestee’s mobile phone was not mentioned in the seizure list.
The two police officials yesterday told the court that the mobile phone was not mentioned in the seizure list as it was Elias’s personal property while the money laundering case against Eliash was lodged on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, Chittagong ACC Director Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan told Dhaka Tribune that they would form probe body and start investigating after getting the case documents from police.
Kotwali police nabbed Md Eliash, 32, of Kasba in Brahmanbaria district, with the money from Ainjibi (Lawyers) Annex Building as police were there in a high alert on the date due to a bomb attack threat on Chittagong court building.