Faridpur BCL chief on remand in money laundering case

A Dhaka court placed on Saturday president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Faridpur district unit Nishan Mahmud Shamim on a three-day remand in a case lodged over amassing and laundering abroad Tk 20 billion, reports UNB.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah passed the order as investigation agency Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand.

CID arrested Nishan from the capital's Uttara area in the afternoon of August 21.

According to the case documents, unidentified miscreants carried out attacks at the Faridpur city house of district Awami League president Subal Chandra Saha on the night of June 16.

Saha filed a case in this connection on June 18 against unidentified miscreants.

Police on July 7 arrested seven people including Faridpur city Awami League general secretary Sazzad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaj Hasan Rubel in connection with that attack.

After that CID initiated investigation about the illegal wealth of Barkat and Rubel and in their primary probe the department got to know that they have illegally amassed and laundered Tk 20 billion. CID then filed the case with the capital's Kafrul thana.

Rubel and Barkat in their police remand revealed names of their associates, and police later arrested Faridpur city Awami League president Nazmul Islam Khandaker Levy, district Sramik League finance secretary Bellal Hossain and lastly district BCL president Nishan.