‘2 people used to guard their vaults’
Inside the tiny flat on the narrow Lalmohon Saha Street of Old Dhaka, "casino brothers" Enamul Haque Enu and Rupon Bhuiyan had hired two people to guard their five steel vaults, law enforcers have found.
In a special drive on Tuesday, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered Tk 26.55 crore in cash and fixed deposit receipts worth Tk 5.15 crore from the vaults.
They also recovered around one kilogramme of gold, USD 9,300, 174 Malaysian ringgit, 5,350 Indian rupees, 1,195 Chinese yen, 11,560 Thai baht, 100 UAE dirhams and some gambling chips from the flat.
"We have found two small beds in two rooms of the flat; two people used to live there to guard the vaults and money," Sarwoer Alam, executive magistrate of Rab headquarters who led the drive, told The Daily Star yesterday.
He, however, said there might be more people to guard the flat from outside, adding that they need more investigation to get a better idea about the brothers' operations.
Another Rab official involved with the investigation said the elite force has hired ten people to move the vaults and money from the flat. "It's really suspicious that no one saw how and when the casino brothers kept those huge steel vaults in this tiny flat," he said, requesting anonymity.
Meanwhile, Rab yesterday handed over the recovered money and gold to Wari Police Station and filed two separate cases, one under Special Powers Act and another under Money Laundering Act.
Sarwoer Alam said they filed the cases against Enamul and Rupon and some unidentified people.
The "casino brothers" came to limelight after law enforces started a drive against casinos in September last year. On September 24, Rab conducted a drive another house of the brothers in the capital's Gendaria and recovered Tk 5 crore in cash, eight kgs of gold and six firearms.
They were finally arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department of police on January 13, from a flat in Keraniganj.
A total of seven cases have been filed against Enamul and Rupon and the CID is investigating four.
The casino brothers are now in jail.
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