A Dhaka court has scheduled the hearing of a petition by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to formally arrest sacked Jubo League leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan on charges of money laundering.
Following a virtual hearing on Sunday in absence of Khalid, Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziaur Rahman fixed June 16 for hearing the petition lodged by the investigating officer, Sub-Inspector Rashedur Rahman.
The court has also set the same day to hear another petition by CID seeking a seven-day remand for Khalid in the case filed under the Money Laundering Act.
The CID, in a case filed on June 7 with the capital’s Motijheel police, said that Khalid siphoned off around Tk8.5 crore to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand until December 2019.
Khalid, who served as the organizing secretary of Jubo League’s Dhaka metro South unit, was arrested last year when authorities cracked down against illegal gambling operation at sports clubs in the capital.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from his Gulshan residence on September 18 for running casino operations at a club in Dhaka’s Fakirapool. The elite police unit had then seized unlicensed firearms, contraband yaba pills and a huge amount of cash from his home.
Khalid, who was subsequently ousted from the Jubo League, faces charges in four cases under narcotics, firearms and money laundering legislations.
