Unipay2u fraud: HC rule for refunding Tk 3.05 crore to depositor
The High Court today questioned the authorities' failure to refund Tk 3.05 crore to a depositor of unipay2u Bangladesh Limited, in line with a trial court verdict.
In response to a writ petition, the HC issued a rule asking the respondents to explain in four weeks why their failure to refund the money to depositor Md Mazur Hossain should not be declared illegal.
In the rule, the court also asked the respondents to show causes why they should not be directed to refund the money including its interest since 2010 to Manzur Hossain.
Secretaries to the ministries of finance, law and home, the governor of Bangladesh Bank and the head of its money laundering prevention departments, chairman of unipay2u Bangladesh Limited and representatives of Brac Bank, City Bank and NCC Bank, where the money had been deposited, have been made respondents to the rule, writ petitioner's lawyer Saifuzzaman Tuhin told The Daily Star.
The HC bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Mohammad Ali came up with the rule following the writ petition filed by Manzur seeking necessary directives on the respondents to refund his money deposited to unipay2u.
Lawyer Saifuzzaman said a Dhaka court on January 23, 2019 sentenced six officials of unipay2u, including its chairman and manager, to 12 years' rigorous imprisonment each in a case filed for laundering around Tk 1,351 crore through a multi-level marketing sham.
The trial court also directed the authorities concerned to take steps to refund the money to the depositors of unipay2u.
But the respondents are yet to take any step to refund the money, he added.
On January 25, 2011, Taufiqul Islam, an assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station against the officials of unipay2u, a so-called multilevel marketing company, for amassing money by cheating people.
In the case, it was alleged that the accused lured people into investing in gold, promising higher profit against the purchase.
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