Tk 26cr seized from AL leaders’ Wari house
The Rapid Action Battalion in an early Tuesday raid seized cash worth Tk 26.55 crore and Tk 5.15 crore in bank fixed deposits from the residence of Enamul Haque Enu, the suspended vice-president of Gandaria Awami League, and his brother Rupon Bhuiyan in Wari in the capital, officials said.
Rupon was joint general secretary of the same AL unit, who was also suspended from the party position.
A RAB team, led by the force’s executive magistrate Sarwoer Alam, conducted the raid at their house at Lalmohon Saha Street in Wari at around 12:30am, said the officials.
After the raid, RAB-3 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Rafikul Islam, in the presence of Sarwoer Alam, at Dholaipar near their residential building said that they also seized foreign currencies, including US9,300 dollars, from their house.
The team also seized 174 Malaysian ringgit, 5,350 Indian rupee, 1,195 Chinese yen, 11,560 Thai baht and 100 UAE dirhams from the flat.
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The RAB members found five steel safes in the three-room flat, where the cash, FDRs, and jewellery were stored, according to the officials.
The siblings were earlier arrested from Keraniganj on January 13 for allegedly running a casino illegally. They had been into hiding since September 18, 2019.
During the Tuesday raid, Lieutenant Colonel Rafikul told reporters, the team recovered the cash and FDRs, a kilogram of gold and some casino chips from the five steel safes on the ground floor of the six-story building named Mamataz Vila.
Earlier in September 2019, at least Tk 5 crore and 5 lakh in cash and 730 bharis of gold were seized from their houses in Gandaria, Dholaikhal and Narinda during a daylong RAB operation in connection with ‘casino’ business operated by ruling party leaders.
Seven cases were filed against Dhaka Wanderers Club’s casino shareholders Enu and his brother Rupon following the September recovery of the money, gold and firearms from their houses.
During the drive against casinos, the brothers had fled to Cox’s Bazar and planned to flee to Malaysia through Myanmar, but failed due to the vigilance of law enforcers, according to CID officials.
They later returned to Dhaka and took shelter at a rented flat of one of their employees. The brothers were trying to secure forged passports to flee to Nepal through India, the officials said.
The two brothers have 22 houses and plots in the capital, five cars, and Tk 19.11 crore deposited in 91 bank accounts frozen by the Bangladesh Bank, said Imtiaz Ahmed, deputy inspector general (organised crime) of the Criminal Investigation Department.
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