A case was filed against five persons, including former army chief general (retired) Aziz Ahmed and former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed for demanding Tk 100 crore as extortion from a business person in September 2019.聽
Selim Prodhan, a business person of Gulshan area, popularly known as Casino Selim, on Thursday filed the case with the court of metropolitan magistrate Md Ali Haider.
The other three accused of the case are Haris Ahmed and Tofail Ahmed alias Joseph, both are brothers of Aziz Ahmed and lieutenant colonel Shafiullah Bulbul, former commanding officer of RAB-3.
Upon the hearing, the magistrate recorded the statement of the complainant and asked the crime investigation department of police to submit an investigation report within the shortest possible time.
Selim Prodhan in his complaint mentioned that the then RAB-3 official Shafiullah Bulbul, following an order of the then IGP Benazir and army chief Aziz Ahmed, went to his Gulshan residence on September 7, 2019 and demanded a 鈥楻ange Rover鈥� jeep as extortion.
The RAB official again on September 24 went to the residence of Selim and demanded
Tk 100 crore as extortion. Otherwise, he was threatened to be made accused in a casino case.
The complainant said that the RAB official along with his team picked Selim up from a Thailand bound aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and forcibly took him to the RAB-1office on September 30 in the same year.
The team, led by Shafiullah Bulbul, tortured Selim mercilessly and threatened to kill him if he failed to give a Range Rover jeep and Tk 100 crore as extortion. They also snatched away his belongings, including dollars, worth around Tk 10 crore, from him.