BANANI RAPE CASE Customs intel raids Apon Jewllers’ outlets

Customs authorities on Sunday conducted raids on the business firms owned by the father of one of the suspects of reported rape incidents inside Rain Tree Hotel in the capital’s Banani on March 28. 
The authorities also raided the hotel. 
The police investigators said they were still interrogating two suspects — Shahfat Ahmed and Sadman Sakif — in their custody.
Meanwhile, the family of one of the two victims alleged that a few people introducing as members of Detective Branch, with firearms, asked the building’s security personnel various questions.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate members conduct a raid at an Apan Jewellers outlet at Mouchak in Dhaka on Sunday. — Sourav Lasker

Gulshan police station officer-in-charge Abu Bokor Siddiqui told New Age that they, receiving the news, went to the victim’s house, collected CCTV footage and talked to the building’s security guard and other people of the house.
He said that analysing the footage and witnesses they came to know that two people having files in their hands came to the house in a motorcycle, talked to the security guard of the house and wanted to enter into her residence to talk to family member.
Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate officials said they were conducting drives for ‘dirty money’ at the branches of Apon Jewellers, owned by Shafat’s father Dildar Ahmed Salim. 
The Gulshan outlet of Apan Jewelers has been sealed as customs intelligence officials are conducting raids at five of its branches in search of ‘dirty money’, the officials said.
The drives were also going on at Apan Jewelers’ Uttara, Mouchak and Shimanto Square outlets since morning.

Apan Jewellers outlet at Gulshan in Dhaka is padlocked following a drive by law enforcers. — Sourav Lasker

Tax officials along with Rapid Action Battalion forces are jointly conducting the drive.
‘We are conducting the drives in the face of public demand and the information about owner of Apan Jewelers Dildar Ahmed and his son Shafat Ahmed surfaced in the media,’ said Moinul Khan.
Dildar Ahmed, however, told the media that if his son committed any crime, he would accept any punishment awarded by the judicial authorities. 

 

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