The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police filed another case against Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan, the sacked Dhaka Metropolitan South organizing secretary of Jubo League, under the Money Laundering Act. He was arrested on charges of running a casino illegally.
Khalid illegally smuggled around Tk8.5 crore to Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand till December 31, 2019, as per the case details.
CID Inspector Ibrahim Hossain filed the case with Motijheel police station on Sunday, confirmed CID Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Faruk Ahmed to Dhaka Tribune on Monday.
“We found evidence of money laundering against Khalid in our primary investigation,” ASP Faruk said.
Apart from Khalid, Ayub Rahman, Din Majumder, Abu Yunus alias Abu Hayder, and several other unknown people have also been accused in the case.
During the investigation of the money laundering case, Inspector Ibrahim found that the accused Khalid had one ATM card each of Maybank and RHB Bank in Malaysia, United Overseas Bank (UOB) in Singapore, and Bangkok Bank in Thailand.
Khalid had 2,557,000 Malaysian ringgit in four accounts in Maybank and RHB bank till December 31, 2019. The accounts were opened in May 2018 from the KLCC branches of the banks.
Khalid opened an electronic goods selling company called Orpon Traders Pte Ltd in Singapore on October 23, 2017. He opened a current account under its name with UOB where the account balance was 505,000 Singapore dollars on December 31, 2019.
Khalid smuggled money to Singapore using hundi through his associate Abu Yunus, who is a resident there.
Khalid opened another account in October 2018 under the name Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan at Bangkok Bank to deposit 10,000,000 Thai baht. He smuggled this money with the help of Ayub Rahman. In Thailand, Din Majumdar deposited the money on behalf of the accused.
As of December 31, 2019, all the money smuggled out into foreign currency accounts by Khalid amounted to around Tk85,000,000. The money was smuggled with help from his accomplices Ayub Rahman, Abu Yunus, Din Majumdar, and several other unknown people.
On Khalid’s passport, there were visas for Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and China.
He went to Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand around 70 times since 2010.
Upon investigation, Inspector Ibrahim found that Khalid illegally controlled different types of work tenders in different organizations including Rail Bhaban, Rajuk, National Sports Council, Water Development Board, Krishi Bhaban, Wasa, and Dhaka South City Corporation.
He took work orders in the name of his organizations Bhuiyan & Bhuiyan Developer Ltd, Orko Builders, and Orport Properties.
On top of that, he extorted money from contractors of projects amounting to 2-10% of the project value.
Khalid has also allegedly extorted large amounts of money from various areas of Dhaka including Motijheel, Sabujbagh, Khilgaon, Kamalapur, Malibagh, and Shantinagar. He made money by illegally building and selling markets on railway land in Shahjahanpur of Dhaka.
Moreover, he made a huge amount of money operating an illegal casino at Fakirapool Young Men's Club in Motijheel.
CID also found five flats in different neighbourhoods of Dhaka including Gulshan and Mohammadpur. He had two cars, a Prado and a Noah, under his name.
On September 18, 2019, RAB arrested Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan on charges of running a casino-style gambling den at Fakirapool Young Men's Club. He was expelled from the organisation following his arrest.
