Shawdesh desk:

The Dhaka Special Judge Court-10 on Monday sentenced expelled Juba League leader Golam Kibria Shamim, better known as GK Shamim, to 10 years’ imprisonment in a case filed over laundering Tk 195 crore.

The court also sentenced seven of his bodyguards to four years in jail for assisting GK Shamimin acquiring the laundered money.

Judge Md Nazrul Islam of the court handed down the sentence.

GK Shamim and all his seven bodyguards heard the verdict from the dock.

The jailed bodyguards are Md Delwar Hossain, Md Murad Hossain, Md Jahidul Islam, Md Shahidul Islam, Md Kamal Hossain, Md Samsad Hossain and Md Aminul Islam.

GK Shamim was a top contractor of government projects and laundered the money to Singapore and Malaysia, according to the prosecution.

On September 21, 2019, Rapid Action Battalion – 1 Nayek Subedar Mizanur Rahman filed the case under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012 with Gulshan Police Station.

A mobile court of the RAB led by Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam surrounded Shamim’s business office at Niketan in Dhaka and conducted a raid in the afternoon of September 20, 2019.

Shamim was detained along with his seven bodyguards and around Taka Two crore in cash and Fixed Deposit Receipt of about Taka 165 crore were seized from his Niketan office.

Apart from the money, the elite anti-crime force also recovered illegal firearms, ammunition and drugs from Shamim’s office.