Police seize Ron Sikder’s Range Rover
Police on Monday seized Ron Haque Sikder's Range Rover which was allegedly used during the attempted murder of Exim Bank Managing Director Mohammed Haider Ali Miah.
Ron shot Haider from inside the vehicle on May 7, according to a case filed with the Gulshan Police Station.
A team of Gulshan Division Police seized the white SUV from Sikder House on Banani Road-11 on Monday, said Assistant Commissioner Rafiqul Islam.
"We seized the car as evidence of the case," he told The Daily Star yesterday.
On May 19, Exim Bank Director Lt Col (retd) Serajul Islam filed the case accusing Ron and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder of torturing and trying to kill Haider and Mohammad Feroz Hossain, additional managing director of the bank over a loan
The two top officials were attacked after they refused to falsely inflate the value of Sikder brothers property that would be mortgaged for a loan of Tk 500-crore, according to the case.
The Sikders also tortured the two officials while confining them to a house in Banani and forced them to sign on a blank paper at gunpoint, read the case.
On May 25, six days after the case was registered, the two brothers fled to Bangkok on an air ambulance that left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with government permission.
Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch of Police, told The Daily Star yesterday that officers were collecting witness statements and evidence.
"Whoever is involved and wherever they are staying -- Thailand or Bangkok-- we are working to ensure their punishment."
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