Gold smuggling: 3 Biman officials confess crime

Five people, including three top Biman officials, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in gold smuggling, reportedly made confessional statements before separate Dhaka courts on Sunday. Those who confessed to the crime are Biman’s deputy general manager Md Emdad Hossain, its chief of planning and scheduling Abu Md Aslam Shaheed, scheduling manager Tojammel Hossain Khan, owner of Farhan Money Exchange Harun-or-Rashid and Biman contractor Mahmud Hossain Polash. All confessed their part to the gold smuggling through the country’s airports, including Dhaka and Chittagong airports. Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur recorded the statement of Emdad while Magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman that of Aslam Shaheed, Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey that of Tojammel, Magistrate M Anwar Sadat that of Harun-or-Rashid and Metropolitan Magistrate M Maruf Hossain recorded the statement of Polash under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. After the recording of the confessional statements, the court of Magistrate M Anwar Sadat sent them to jail rejecting their bail petitions. On last Tuesday night, detectives arrested the five from different areas of the city for their alleged involvement in gold smuggling. Later, they were shown arrested in a case filed earlier under the Special Powers Act and placed on a four-day remand each by a Dhaka court, according to a news agency.