A court in the capital on Wednesday placed corrupt contractor Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim on a nine-day fresh remand in two cases lodged under anti-money laundering and arms acts, reports BSS.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim passed the order, putting Shamim on a five-day remand in the case lodged under Money Laundering Prevention Act and four-day remand in the arms case. Earlier the police produced him before the court after end of his 10-day remand in weapon and narcotics cases. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain at the time allowed a police plea to show Shamim arrested in anti-money laundering case.
Earlier on September 21, court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akter placed Shamim on a 10-day remand in two cases lodged under weapon and narcotics acts. Earlier Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) filed three cases, one under arms act, one under narcotics act and another under money laundering prevention act.
A mobile court of the RAB led by Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam surrounded Shamim’s business office at Niketan and conducted the raid on the afternoon of September 20. Shamim, who used to con people by identifying himself as a leader of Jubo League, were detained along with his seven bodyguards and around Taka two crore in cash and Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) of about Taka 165 crore were seized from his capital’s Niketan office. Apart from the money, the elite anti-crime force also recovered illegal firearms, ammunition and drugs from Shamim’s office.
