GK Shamim put on nine-day fresh remand
The court granted police 5-day remand in a money laundering case and 4-day in an arms case
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Jubo League leader SM Golam Kibria Shamim on a nine-day remand in two separate cases lodged under anti-money laundering and arms acts.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the order after police produced Shamim before the court with a plea for a 10-day remand for each case.
The court, however, put him on a five-day remand in a money laundering case and four-day in an arms case.
The police produced him before the court after he went through a 10-day remand in weapon and narcotics cases.
Earlier on September 20, GK Shamim, a top government-listed contractor, was detained by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) along with his seven bodyguards on charges of extortion and manipulating tenders.
The RAB also seized Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDR) worth Tk165 crore and around Tk1.8 crore in cash from his possession. Apart from the money, the elite anti-crime force also recovered illegal firearms, ammunition and drugs from Shamim's office at Niketon in the capital.
The RAB later filed three cases -- one under arms act, one under narcotics act and another under money laundering prevention act – against Shamim.
On September 21, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akter placed Shamim on a 10-day remand in two cases lodged under weapon and narcotics acts.
