DHAKA, Feb 24, 2020 (BSS) – Two separate courts here today placed
expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur
Rahman Sumon on 15-day remand each in three cases lodged against them.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masudur Rahman placed the couple along
with their personal aides Sabbir Khondokar, 29, and Sheikh Taiba Nur, 22, on
five-day remand each in a case lodged under The Special Powers Act, 1974,
with Airport Police Station.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim on the other hand, placed
the Papia and Sumon on 10-day remand in total in two arms and narcotics cases
lodged under Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Investigation officer (IO) of special powers act case and Airport Police
Station inspector Md Kaikobad Kazi in his remand plea said the accused have
confessed amassing huge wealth through business of illegal weapons, drug
trade, smuggling, trading of fake currencies, extortion, lobbying, land trade
and immoral works.
“We need to take them on 10-day remand to interrogate them extensively
to discover the source of foreign currencies recovered from them, identify
other members of fake currency making gang and its kingpin and conduct raids
in this regard,” he said.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 arrested Papia and the three others from
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on February 22. The elite crime
busting agency members recovered seven passports, Taka 2, 12,270, fake note
of Taka 25,600, USD 11,481, Sri Lankan 420 rupee, Indian 301 rupee and two
debit cards from their possessions.
RAB later raided Papia’s Farmgate flats and recovered a foreign-made
pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of foreign-made liquor, Taka
58, 41,000 cash, credit and debit cards of different banks from there.