Court Correspondent :
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against expelled Jubo League Dhaka South Organizing Secretary Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan and five others in a case lodged in connection with money laundering.
The other accused are: Khalid’s two brothers Masud Mahmud Bhuiyan and Hasan Mahmud Bhuiyan, his accomplices Harunur Rashid, Shahadat Hossain Uzzal and Mohammad Ullah Khan. Of them, Khalid and Mohammad Ullah are behind the bar, while the rest are on the run.
CID Inspector Mohammad Ibrahim, who is also the Investigation Officer of the case, submitted the chargesheet against them to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka. The IO appealed to the court to issue arrest warrants against the four as they are fugitives in the case.
In the chargesheet, the IO said Khalid had visited different countries on different occasions without endorsing foreign currencies in his passport. During the visits, he laundered a huge amount of foreign currencies, the IO said in the chargesheet.
Khalid has a company named M/s Orpon Traders (Private) Limited at Jurang East in Singapore City, where Khalid deposited a huge amount of money and the money was laundered through hundi, the chargesheet says.
The IO found over 20 lakh Thai Bath in an account with Bangkok Bank in Thailand. Mohammad Ullah confessed to a magistrate court during the investigation of the case when he revealed the offences of Khalid.
RAB arrested Khalid from his Gulshan residence on September, 18 last year. Police seized a shotgun, two pistols, 57 rounds of shotgun bullets, 53 rounds of pistol bullets and 585 pieces of Yaba pills from his residence. Later five cases, including a money laundering case, were filed against Khalid with Gulshan and Motijheel Police Stations. He was remanded for several days in the cases.
Earlier, police pressed charges against him in the cases filed under the Arms and Narcotics Control Acts.
