Staff Reporter :
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of Police recovered Tk 1.25 crore from of a businessman’s house in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district on Wednesday.
The members of the law enforcing agencies also arrested him along with his two accomplices. They also seized 2,000 yaba tablets from the house.
The arrested men are businessman Jamal Hossain and his accomplices– Mostafa Kamal and Manik Miah, our Narayanganj correspondent reports quoting Harunur Rashid, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Narayanganj district.
Jamal claims that he owns three coal factories, but could not show any license thereof and also failed to show the fund source, the SP said.
Police primarily suspect that the suspects stored the cash to send it abroad through hundi, he said.
Jamal was running a drug peddling operation under the guise of his business, he added. On secret information that a consignment of a huge cash and yaba pills will be handed, the law enforcers cordoned off the house in Rasulpur area on Tuesday evening, said DB Inspector Md Mizan.
“Finally, we conducted a drive on the third floor of a four-storey building and recovered the cash from a trunk and an almirah,” Mizan said, adding that they also recovered 2,000 pieces of yaba pills at Jamal’s office housed on the ground floor.
Three cases have been filed against them on charge of money laundering, drug peddling and operating coal factories illegally, the Inspector added.
