Staff Reporter :
Police launched a raid on Fu-Wang Club in Tejgaon on Monday as part of an ongoing crackdown on illegal gambling facilities in Dhaka afternoon.
“The club authorities has operated only a bar in the club. We haven’t found any gambling equipment,” said Tejgaon Zone’s Deputy Police Commissioner Anisur Rahman.
Earlier on November 1, 2007, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided the club in search for criminals.
In November 2015, RAB seized liquors from the club as the authorities failed to show valid documents in support of selling alcohol at the club.
On September 18, RAB recovered various casino-style gambling equipment, tens of thousands of takas and large quantities of alcohol in raids on four reputed sporting clubs, including the Young Men’s Club in Motijheel
Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, the club’s President, was later arrested on charge of running an illegal casino from his Gulshan house on September 18.
Two days later, the elite police force carried out further raids on Kalabagan Krira Chakra and Dhanmondi Club in the capital as part of the government’s efforts to thwart illegal gambling activities.
Shafiqul Alam Firoz, the Kalabagan club’s president, and four of his associates were arrested with a firearm and yaba tablets.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday raided four reputed sporting clubs in the capital namely, Mohammedan Sporting Club, Victoria Sporting Club, Dilkusha Sporting Club and Arambagh Krira Sangha in a bid to hunt illegal gambling dens.
The law-enforcing agency later detained 16 women and three men during a raid on spas in Dhaka’s Gulshan for alleged “unsocial activities in illegal massage parlours”.
