RE: Hmmm6 Sep 2024 16:17
Another official at the CID financial crime unit said they have found primary information that Rahman laundered the money and invested in real estate in different countries including Dubai, Singapore and the UK.
Rahman's son, Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman, has opened a large pharmaceutical company in Saudi Arabia, said a CID official involved with the investigation. And most of the funds of that company in Saudi Arabia went from Bangladesh, he said.
Once the primary investigation is complete, a case would be filed under the Money Launder Act against Beximco Group, Dewan said.
During the primary investigation, the CID's financial crime unit found that Beximco Group has been accused of fraudulently taking loans from seven banks in the last 15 years.
Of the loans, Tk 5,218 crore was taken from IFIC Bank, whose chairman is Rahman himself.
The sprawling conglomerate took at least Tk 21,681 crore from the principal branch of the state-run Janata Bank, according to a CID official involved with the investigation.
Beximco also took Tk 295 crore from National Bank; Tk 5,671 crore from Sonali, Agrani and Rupali; and Tk 605 crore from AB Bank, according to CID's primary data.
The CID's financial crime unit has sent teams to the seven banks to collect their database, said its special superintendent Mohammad Basir Uddin.
CID's primary investigation found that Rahman is accused of laundering the loans abroad in the name of various companies of Beximco Group.
There are also allegations that in the last three years around Tk 6,600 crore has been taken from the market visibly and Tk 20,000 crore embezzled through fraud and forgery, reads the CID primary investigation report.
Rahman has been in police custody since August 13 in a case filed over the killing of a shop employee.