Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday approved a charge-sheet against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, one of the “casino kingpins” in Dhaka, in a case filed for laundering Tk 223 crore to Singapore, Malaysia.
The ACC approved the charge-sheet based on the probe findings of investigation officer Md Jahangir Alam, said the commission director for public relations Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.He said that the probe found Samrat, the expelled president of Dhaka South Juba League, accumulated a total of Tk 222,88,62,493. Of the amount, Tk 219,48,58,500 was swindled out to Singapore and Malaysia, said Pranab.
The commission filed a case against Samrat on November 12, 2019 on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk Tk 2.94 crore, said Pranab, adding that the ACC had later found evidences of Samrat’s investment overseas during investigation.
He said that Jahangir, also the deputy director of the commission, would submit the charge-sheet with respective court in Dhaka soon.
Samrat is now in jail as he is facing investigation of several cases filed by different authorities since his arrest.
The anti-graft body gave the go-ahead to the submission of the charge-sheet to the trial court after a long investigation.
Earlier on November 10, Samrat and his close aide Enamul Haque Arman were shown arrested in the case.
On September 13 this year, CID filed the case against the duo under the Money Laundering Act with Ramna Police Station.
In the case, it was alleged that Samrat siphoned off Tk 195 crore to Singapore and Malaysia illegally, with the help of his aide Enamul.
On October 6, 2019, Rapid Action Battalion arrested Samrat, who was the president of Dhaka South unit of Jubo League, and Arman, former vice-president of the same unit, from Cumilla after raiding a house near the Indian border.
He came under the spotlight after Rab busted his illegal casino business at different sporting clubs in Dhaka and later was expelled from the Jubo League following his arrest.
