A court in Dhaka has placed seven bodyguards of contractor Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim, on a four-day remand in a case lodged with Gulshan police station, under money laundering prevention act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order on, as investigation officer (IO) and CID senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Abu Sayeed produced the accused before the court, and pleaded to put them on a 10-day remand on Tuesday, reports BSS.
The accused are Delwar Hossain, Murad Hossain, Jahidul Islam, Shahidul Islam, Kamal Hossain, Samsad Hossain, and Aminul Islam.
Earlier on September 26, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Devdas Chandra Adhikari showed them arrested in a case lodged with Gulshan police station under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
Earlier on September 21, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akter placed Shamim on a five-day remand in an arms case and five- day remand in a narcotics case as Gulshan police produced him before court and pleaded to put him on a 14-day remand in the two cases.
The court also placed seven of his bodyguards on a four-day remand, each in an arms case. Earlier, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) filed three cases, one under arms act, one under narcotics act, and another under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
A mobile court of the RAB, led by Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam, surrounded Shamim’s office at Niketan, and conducted the raid on the afternoon of September 20.
Shamim, who used to con people by identifying himself as a leader of Jubo League, was detained along with his seven bodyguards, and around Tk2 crore in cash and fixed deposit receipt (FDR) of about Tk165 crore were seized from his Niketan office in the capital.
Apart from the money, the elite anti-crime force also recovered illegal firearms, ammunition, and drugs from Shamim’s office.
