8 NGO staffers arrested for money laundering
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Sunday arrested eight staffers of three non-government organisations (NGO) on embezzlement and money laundering charges.
They were arrested in the capital's Ramna area and the NGOs they are employed by belong to leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami. Police are looking for 10 others in this connection, said Molla Nazrul Islam, special superintendent (organized crime) of CID.
The arrestees are Fazlul Haque Rikabdar, Humayun Kabir, Ashraful Haque, Asgar Hossain, Sheikh Shahjahan Kabir, Monirul Islam, Abdur Rouf and Al Mamun Khandaker.
The NGOs through the arrestees and the other 10 raised funds for farmers from various religious and radical groups, both domestically and internationally, under the banner of Bangladesh Chashi Kallyan Samity.
The Samity in the last 11 years has received around Tk 62.5 crore from foreign sources, according to CID.
The NGOs used a portion of the funds to build mosques and madrasas, but they used the remainder of the funds to carry out militant and criminal activities as well as operations of the political party, CID officials said.
A case was filed with Ramna Police Station in this connection under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
Earlier, in February this year, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two NGO employees for propagating militancy.
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