2 Destiny top brass taken on 18-day remand
Two high officials of Destiny Group, including its chairman and managing director Rafiqul Amin, were placed on an 18-day remand yesterday in connection with two money laundering cases.
Mohammad Hossain, chairman of Destiny-2000 Ltd and Destiny Multi-purpose Cooperative Society is the other accused.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Erfan Ullah passed the order after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sought a 20-day remand.
However, the court stayed the remand prayer for the group's president Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid as the hearing on his two bail petitions are pending with the High Court (HC).
The HC is expected to pass orders on those bail petitions today.
The ACC filed the cases with Kalabagan Police Station on July 31 against 22 top officials of Destiny for laundering and transferring investors' money amounting to Tk 3,285.26 crore to their personal accounts.
The two investigators ACC Assistant Director Md Towfiqul Islam and Deputy Director Mozahar Ali Sardar filed two separate remand prayers on October 11 after the accused surrendered before a Dhaka court.
In their forwarding reports, ACC said the accused were involved in laundering money collected from investors and they should be interrogated to trace the whereabouts of the money.
Destiny Group started its journey in 2000 through multi-level marketing business with only Tk 12 lakh.
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