The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has filed charge sheets against online casino kingpin Salim Prodhan and five others for money laundering.
The CID found evidence of nearly Tk 133 million being laundered by the accused in the case.
The charge sheet was filed before the court on Thursday, said CID Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jisanul Haque.
The accused are Salim Prodhan, Md Akhtaruzzaman, Md Roman, Youngsik Lee, Md Arifur Rahman alias Simanto Arif, and Chowdhury Golam Mawla alias Shaon.
Of them, Arifur and Shaon remain fugitive. The CID is trying to arrest them, the CID official said.
On September 30, 2019, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a businessman at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport over his alleged ties to an online gambling enterprise.
The CID sources said that they got the money laundering case on October 10, 2019 and started the investigation.
RAB at that time recovered TK28,95,500 local currency and foreign currencies of various countries worth Tk70 lakh. The recovered money was deposited in the state treasury.
He also said that two cheques worth TK6 crore and evidence of Selim owning nine different business organizations and one farm house in Thailand was also found.
On the other hand, a total of 83 bank accounts of the accused were frozen after collecting information. CID investigated the matter separately.
