Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against 46 fugitive officials of the Destiny Group in two cases filed for swindling of investors’ money amounting to Tk 4,119 crore from two projects.Dhaka’s Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Jahurul Haque took cognizance of the charges in the two cases against 51 officials of Destiny Group and issued warrants against 46 officials who are at large.Four top officials of Destiny Group, including Managing Director Rafiqul Amin and Director Mohammad Hossain, are now in jail custody, while Destiny Group President (Retired) Lieutenant General Harunur Rashid is on bail.The court directed the Officers-in-Charge (OCs) of the concerned police stations to submit the arrest reports against the fugitives to the court by July 13. On May 4, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted charge sheets of the two cases to the court. On January 16, ACC approved the submission of charge sheets in the two cases, against 51 officials of Destiny Group for their 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 Limited project.Charge sheet was submitted against a total of 46 Destiny officials in another case while 14 officials were made accused in both the cases.The charge sheets were submitted against Destiny 2000 Limited President 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, (retired) Lieutenant Colonel 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 ACC filed the two money-laundering cases against Destiny 2000 Limited President Harunur Rashid, managing director Rafiqul Amin and 20 others on charge of misappropriating investors’ money amounting to Tk 3,285 crore.
