Shawdesh Desk:

A Dhaka court  placed seven bodyguards of contractor Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim, on a four-day remand in a case lodged with Gulshan Police Station under money laundering prevention act.

The accused are Delwar Hossain, Murad Hossain, Jahidul Islam, Shahidul Islam, Kamal Hossain, Samsad Hossain and Aminul Islam.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order as investigation officer (IO) and CID senior assistant superintendant of police Abu Sayeed produced the accused before the court and pleaded to put them on a 10-day remand.

Earlier on September 26, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Devdas Chandra Adhikari showed them arrested in a case lodged with Gulshan mPolice Station under money laundering prevention act.

Earlier on September 21, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akter placed Shamim on five-day remand in arms case and five- day remand in narcotics case as Gulshan police produced him before court and pleaded to put him on total 14-day remand in the two cases.

The court also placed seven of his bodyguards on a four-day remand each in arms case. Earlier Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) filed three cases, one under arms act, one under narcotics act and another under money laundering prevention act.

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

Shamim, who used to con people by identifying himself as a leader of Jubo League, was detained along with his seven bodyguards and around Taka two crore in cash and Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) of about Taka 165 crore were seized from his capital’s Niketan office.

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