Huge liquor, casino apparatus found at Aziz Mohammad’s Gulshan house

Department of Narcotics Control officials found a huge cache of liquor and other contraband drugs as well as casino equipment in a raid at Gulshan residence of businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai on Sunday.

Olympic Industries Limited director and Ambee Pharmaceuticals Limited board of directors chairman Aziz Mohammad, better known as a film producer, was not at home on road no 57 of Gulshan 2 during the raid, the department officials said.

Aziz Mohammad is reportedly living in Bangkok for about a decade.

Department of Narcotics Control additional director Md Fazlur Rahman on the spot said that they, on secret information, began the drive at about 5:00pm in two six-storeyed buildings of the same holding owned by Aziz Mohammad.

The department’s Dhaka metro north assistant director Khurshid Alam said they found casino equipment on the rooftop of one of the buildings and 382 bottles of foreign liquor, 24 cans of beer, four kilograms of shisa and 200 grams of hemp from the third floor of the other building.

He said that during the drive they also detained two caretakers of the buildings, namely Nabin and Pervez.

The Department of Narcotics Control official said that it seemed that none came to the apartment where the drugs were found but the air coolers of the apartment were found switched on.

‘The place where we found the drugs is like a warehouse and the caretakers might have switched on the air coolers earlier,’ he said.

He said that they had information that Aziz Mohammad had been staying abroad for months.

The businessman, also a life member of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce, is absconding since a special tribunal on stock market in late August 2018 issued an arrest warrant for businessman Aziz Mohammed Bhai in a case over 1996 stock market scam and asked Motijheel police for arresting him, Dhaka Metropolitan Police officials said.

The government began a crackdown on illegal casinos in the capital on September 18, sealed a number of casinos, especially in sporting clubs, where liquors were also found.

During the drives against corruption, casino and illegal money, a number of local leaders of Awami League and its front organisations and businessmen linked to AL were arrested.

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