Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka Court yesterday framed charges against SM Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim and his seven bodyguards in a money laundering case.
Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam of the Special Judges Court-10 of Dhaka passed an order framing the charges against the accused and fixed November 19 for recording the depositions of the witnesses.
Other seven accused are: Delwar Hossain, Murad Hossain, Md Jahidul Islam, Shahidul Islam, Jamal Hossain, Samshad Hossain and Aminul Islam. On October 5, Metropolitan Sessions Judge of Dhaka KM Imrul Qayesh transferred the case to Special Judges Court-10 of Dhaka for further proceedings.
On August 4, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Additional Superintendant of Police (Economic Crime Squad) Abu Sayeed submitted the charge sheet of the case to the against the eight accused. Twenty-six were made witnesses in the case.
Earlier on September 21, last year, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) 1 Nayek Subedar Mizanur Rahman filed the case under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012 with Gulshan Police Station.
A mobile court of RAB led by Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam surrounded Shamim’s business office at Niketan and conducted a raid in the afternoon of September 20, last year.
Shamim, who used to contact people identifying himself as a leader of Jubo League, was detained along with his seven bodyguards and about Taka two crore in cash and Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) of about Taka 165 crore, seized from his Niketan office.
Apart from the money, RAB recovered illegal firearms ammunition and drug from Shamim’s office.
