Shawdesh Desk:

Online casino businessman Salim Prodhan and his two associate were remanded for four days in a case filed for dealing illegal drugs on Thursday morning.

The names of his associates are Akhtaruzamman and Roman.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mainul Islam passed the order after Gulshan police produced them before the court and pleaded to put them on total 7-day remand for each in connection with the case filed under the Narcotic Control Act.

Earlier, Metropolitan Magistrate Dhiman Chandra Mandal granted a petition to show the trio arrested in the same case, police source said.

On September 3O, RAB-1 arrested Salim from the Dhaka airport while he was leaving the country for Thailand.

During a raid on his house and office, RAB seized Tk 1 crore in local and foreign currencies. His two associates –Akhtaruzzaman and Roman– were arrested from his Gulshan residence.

Forty-one bottles of foreign liquor, 12 passports, 32 cheques, a laptop, a desktop and five master cards were also seized during the drives.

On October 1, a RAB mobile court sentenced Salim to six months in prison for possessing two deer skins.