Court orders freezing GK Shamim’s 194 bank accounts
A Dhaka court yesterday granted a Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) petition to freeze 194 bank accounts of former Jubo League leader GK Shamim.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court passed the order.
CID officials said Shamim and his accomplices used their licenced firearms to misappropriate a huge amount of money through extortion, land grabbing and tender manipulation.
He deposited all the money in different bank accounts. If these accounts were not frozen, it would be impossible to recover the money in the future, said Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Abu Sayeed of CID.
Sayeed, also the investigation officer of a money laundering case filed against Shamim, filed the petition with the court.
Rab arrested Shamim and his seven bodyguards on September 20 last year on charges of extortion and tender manipulation.
The law enforcers, during a raid in his house and office in the capital’s Niketan, seized eight firearms, a huge amount of ammunition, Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) worth Tk 165 crore, a stash of Tk 1.8 crore, a large amount of US and Singaporean dollars, and some foreign liquor.
He was remanded the following day in an arms and a drug case.
A money laundering case was also filed against Shamim and his bodyguards with Gulshan Police Station on the day, in which they were shown arrested on September 26.
Anti-Corruption Commission filed another case against him and his mother for allegedly amassing a huge amount of money beyond their known sources of income.