Expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat and his aide Enamul Haque Arman have been shown arrested in a money laundering case filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sarafuzzaman Ansari on Tuesday passed the order after hearing a petition submitted by the CID, confirmed General Recording Officer Sub-Inspector Nizam Uddin of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
CID Inspector Md Mehedi Maqsud, also the investigating officer of the case, filed the shown arrested petition after producing the accused before the court, he added.
Earlier on September 13, the CID lodged the case with Ramna police in Dhaka on charges of siphoning Tk195 crore to Singapore and Malaysia.
"The money was siphoned off between December 2011 and August 2019 through a Dhaka-based company owned by Samrat," CID's Senior ASP (Assistant Superintendent of Police) Jisan Ul Haque told Dhaka Tribune.
According to the case documents, Samrat made 37 trips to Singapore, three to Malaysia and travelled to Dubai and Hong Kong once during the same period. His aide Arman made 23 trips to Singapore over the same duration.
Samrat earned money through conducting various illegal activities in Motijheel, Fakirapool, Paltan, and Kakrail areas, it said.
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Samrat, the former president of Jubo League's Dhaka South unit, came under the spotlight last year when the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) busted illegal gambling businesses at several sports clubs in Dhaka.
He subsequently went into hiding before being arrested with Arman in Comilla on October 6 that year.
He was expelled from the youth front of the ruling Awami League following his arrest.
RAB later conducted a raid on Samrat's office in Kakrail's Bhuiyan Trade Centre with him in tow.
They subsequently recovered a foreign pistol, 1,160 yaba tablets, 19 bottles of foreign liquor, two kangaroo hides, and 'electrical torture equipment.'
Two cases were also filed against him under the Narcotics Control Act and Arms Act at Ramna police station.
A RAB mobile court also sentenced Samrat and Arman to six months each in prison for wildlife law violations and drunkenness respectively.
The Anti-Corruption Commission also filed two cases against them for amassing wealth through illegal means.
