‘Freeze 91 accounts of Enamul, Rupon’
Dhaka court orders authorities
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered to freeze 91 bank accounts of former Awami League leader Enamul Haque Enu and his brother Rupon Bhuiyan in two money laundering cases filed with Gandaria and Wari police stations.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge's Court of Dhaka passed the order after two CID inspectors submitted two separate petitions for freezing the accounts in which Tk 19 crore was deposited.
CID Inspector Sadeque Ali submitted a petition for freezing the accounts of Enamul and CID Inspector Mehedi Maksud submitted another for freezing Rupon's accounts.
The cases were filed on September 25 last year.
The same court yesterday rejected their bail petitions in two other corruption cases for illegally acquiring Tk 21 crore and Tk 14 crore -- respectively by Enamul and Rupon -- widely known as "Casino Brothers".
Enamul is former vice-president of Gandaria unit Awami League while Rupon is its former joint general secretary.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the corruption cases against the two brothers with its Integrated District Office-1 of Dhaka on October 23 last year.
On January 13, they were arrested in Dhaka's Keraniganj along with one of their accomplices Sheikh Sunny Mostofa. Sunny, who was also arrested on charges of giving shelter to the brothers at his house in South Keraniganj.
Enamul and Rupon went into hiding after law enforcers launched a crackdown on illegal casinos, bars and spas in September last year.
Wanderers Club, of which Enamul was the director, was first raided by Rab on September 18.
On February 25, a Rab team launched a drive at their house on Wari's Lalmohon Saha Street and recovered Tk 26.55 crore in cash and FDR worth Tk 5.15 crore.
They also recovered around one kg of gold, 9,300 USD, 174 Malaysian ringgit, 5,350 Indian rupees, 1,195 Chinese yuan, 11,560 Thai baht, 100 UAE dirhams and some gambling chips from the flat.
Rab suspected that the money was collected from their illegal casino business. Enamul and Rupon were the directors of a casino at the Wanderer's Club in Motijheel.