The Criminal Investigation Department has confiscated assets worth Tk聽250 crore belonging to Beximco Group vice-chairman Salman F Rahman and his family members in connection with a money laundering case.
The CID of Bangladesh police seized the assets after court accepted its petition for confiscating the assets, said CID inspector (media) Nazrul Islam on Thursday.
Contacted, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge court鈥檚 public prosecutor Omar Faruk Faruki told 抖阴精品 that the court passed the order recently.
According to the CID, the assets seized are 1,967.919 decimal of land at Dohar upazila and a 6,189.54 square feet apartment at The Envoy building in the name of Salman鈥檚 son and also one of the accused, Ahmed Shariar Rahman at Gulshan, and his other 2,713.10 square feet flat in the six-storey triplets building in the Gulshan residential area in Dhaka.
Salman, the owner of Beximco Group, has allegedly laundered money by exporting goods worth $2,60,14,984 to his son鈥檚 company RR Global Trading FZE at Saif Lounge in Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates, said the CID.
Salman laundered the money through 21 letters of credit/sales contracts in the name of two companies 鈥� Apollo Apparels Limited and Kanchpur Apparels Limited 鈥� on various dates between 2020 and 2024, it said.
A money laundering case is under investigation in this regard.聽 As part of the investigation, the assets have been seized with the permission of the court, said the CID.
Earlier in December 2024, the CID filed 17 cases against Ahmed Sohail F Rahman, chairman of Beximco Group, and Salman F Rahman, their sons and 24 others on charges of trade-based money laundering about Tk聽1,000 crore ($83 million).
The CID鈥檚 investigation revealed that Salman and Sohail allegedly laundered the money through the export of goods, using 93 LCs from Janata Bank between 2021 and 2024.
The export proceeds were never repatriated to Bangladesh, it found.
The case statement said that almost all of the exported goods were sent to Sharjah of the UAE and Saudi Arabian addresses of RR Global Trading, a joint venture owned by Salman鈥檚 son Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman and Ahmed Sohail鈥檚 son Ahmed Shahriar Rahman.
Bangladesh鈥檚 laws require repatriation of export proceeds within four months after export.
Salman, former private industry affairs adviser to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was arrested in August 2024 and now is in jail in connection with various cases filed after the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
