Investigators have pressed money laundering charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat and his aide Enamul Haque Arman.
They stand accused of siphoning off TK195 crore to Singapore and Malaysia in a case filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) with Ramna police in Dhaka on Sunday.
“The money was siphoned off between December 2011 and August last year through a Dhaka-based company owned by Samrat,” said CID’s Senior Assistant Superintendent Jisan Ul Haque.
According to the case documents, Samrat made 37 trips to Singapore, 3 to Malaysia and travelled to Dubai and Hong Kong once during the same period. His aide Arman made 23 trips to Singapore during the same time.
Samrat, the former president of Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit, came under the spotlight last year after RAB busted illegal gambling business at several sports clubs in Dhaka.
He subsequently went into hiding before being arrested along with Arman in Comilla on October 6 that year.
He was expelled from the Jubo League following his arrest.
The RAB later conducted a raid on Samrat’s office in Kakrail’s Bhuiyan Trade Centre with him in tow.
They subsequently recovered a foreign pistol, 1,160 yaba tablets, 19 bottles of foreign liquor, two kangaroo hides and 'electrical torture equipment.'
Two cases were also filed against him under the Narcotics Control Act and Arms Act with the Ramna Police Station.
