CID seeks to quiz BD Foods chief

Criminal Investigation Department yesterday sought permission to interrogate BD Foods Ltd Chairman Badruddoza Chowdhury Momen and five others in connection with 54 kilogrammes of heroin smuggling case.
CID Assistant Superintendent of Police Arshad Ali, also the investigation officer of the case, appealed to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka to unearth how and from where the accused had brought heroin into the country.
After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Shahdat Hossain fixed March 24 for hearing on the petition.
The case was filed with Sutrapur Police Station in May 2006.
The other five are BD Foods officials Mohammad Mainuddin and Abu Bakar Siddique, former employee Nazmul Haider Bhuiyan Bulbul, Kazi Zafar Reza of Rainbow Enterprise and Abul Bashar of Green Heaven Enterprise.
They along with Badruddoza obtained bails from the High Court earlier on different dates.
Zafar and Bashar after being arrested on May 7 and 12 of 2006 gave confessional statements before magistrates. The two confessed that they were involved with smuggling heroin to the UK following Badruddoza's directive.
Badruddoza was arrested on May 14 the same year after Nazmul and his accomplice Mokhlesur Rahman Nayan, a cargo handler, confessed to a magistrate that they had smuggled 22.5kg of heroin to the UK on instructions from Badruddoza.
He was also shown arrested in a case filed in connection with the 22.5kg-heroin smuggling case filed with Motijheel Police Station in May the same year.
Later, Badruddoza was remanded for 17 days on different dates. He was granted bail from the HC on July 9, 2006.