A court here on Wednesday issued arrest warrants against 46 fugitive officials of the Destiny Group in two cases for alleged swindling of investors’ money amounting to Tk 4,119 crore from two projects. Judge M Jahurul Haque of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge’s court took cognizance of the charges in the two cases made against 51 officials of Destiny Group and issued arrest warrants against 46 officials who are on the run. Four top officials of Destiny Group, including its Managing Director Rafiqul Amin and director Mohammad Hossain, are now in jail custody while Destiny Group president Lt Gen (retd) Harunur Rashid is on bail. The court asked the officer-in-charge (OCs) of the concerned police stations to submit the arrest-related reports against the fugitives to the court by July 13. Earlier, on May 4, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted charge sheets before the court in the two cases. On January 16 last, the Commission approved the submission of charge sheets in the two cases against 51 officials of Destiny Group for alleged swindling of the investors’ money. The ACC submitted charge sheet in one case against 19 Destiny officials, including the 12 sued earlier for misappropriating Tk 2106.64 crore from the Destiny Tree Plantation Ltd project. A total of 46 Destiny officials were charge-sheeted in another case while 14 officials were accused in both the cases. The charge sheets were submitted against Destiny 2000 Limited chairman Lt General (retd) M Harunur Rashid and managing director Rafiqul Amin, its directors Gofranul Huq, Sayed-ur Rahman, Mejbah Uddin Swapan, Syed Sazzad Hossain, Irfan Ahmed Sunny, Farha Diba, Jamshed Ara Chowdhury, Sheikh Tayebur Rahman, Nepal Chandra Biswas, former general secretary of DMCSL Zakir Hossain, former joint secretary of DMCSL Azad Rahman, former treasurer of DMCSL Akbar Hossain Sumon, Shirin Akhter, Lt Col (retd) Didarul Alam, Rafiqul Islam Sarkar, Majibur Rahman, Sumon Ali Khan, Saidul Islam Khan Rubel and Abul Kalam Azad and 29 Destiny officials. On July 31, 2012, the anti-graft body filed the two money-laundering cases against Destiny 2000 Limited chairman Lt Gen (retd) M Harunur Rashid, managing director Rafiqul Amin and 20 others on charge of misappropriating investors’ money amounting to Tk 3,285 crore. — UNB, Dhaka.
