Shawdesh Desk:

A Dhaka court has sentenced 11 people, including expelled Awami League leaders Enamul Haque Enu and his brother Rupon Bhuiyan, to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case filed for laundering a total of Tk 19,990,000.

Judge Mohammad Iqbal Hossain of the Fifth Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order on Monday.

The court also fined them Tk 4 crore each.

The others convicts are their three brothers Shahidul Haque Bhuiyan, Rashidul Haque Bhuiyan, and Merajul Haque Bhuiyan, general secretary of Wanderer’s Club in Motijheel, Joy Gopal Sarkar, and their accomplices Nobin Hossain Sikder, Md Saiful Islam, Tuhin Munshi, Abul Kalam Azad and Pavel Rahman.

Of them, Shahidul, Rashidul, Merajul, and Pavel are absconding.

On July 26, 2020, CID Inspector Sadek Ali, who is also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against Enamul Haque Enu and his brother Rupon Bhuiyan, and nine others in the case.

Enu, Rupon, and their associate Sunny were arrested from the capital’s Keraniganj on January 13, 2020, as they were planning to flee to Nepal via India by using fake passports.

According to the CID, the brothers were the kingpins behind introducing casino business in Bangladesh. They used to bring casino materials from Nepal and supplied those to buyers across the country.