Online casino hub busted in city, foreign currencies seized
Crime
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has seized foreign currencies including US Dollars and Malaysian Ringgits during a drive at an online based gambling office at Gulshan-2 in the capital.
The office belongs to one Salim Prodhan, who is also dubbed as the online casino kingpin of Dhaka. He was arrested by a RAB team and confessed about running illegal online casino business at his Prodhan Group office in Gulshan.
After primary interrogation, RAB-1 team took him to his office and conducted the drive at "P24 Gaming" office at the building named "Momtaz Vision" at around 8:30pm Monday.
Mizanur Rahman Bhuyan, senior assistant director of RAB Legal and Media wing, confirmed the matter.
The RAB team also recovered some bottles of illegal foreign wine and several laptops from the office.
The drive was underway till filing of this report around 4:30am.
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