DHAKA, Sept 21, 2020 (BSS) – The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today filed two cases against Directorate General of Health Services driver Abdul Malek for his alleged involvement in trading illegal firearms and counterfeit currencies.
RAB’s Media and Legal Wing Director Lieutenant Colonel AshiqueBikllah told BSS that the RAB filed the cases withTurag police station under Firearms and the Special Power Act.
The anti-crime elite force arrested Malek from Turag area early Sunday and recovered a foreign-made pistol, a magazine, five bullets, and counterfeit notes worth Tk 1.50 lakh from his possession.
The RAB official said being informed they started investigation against Malek, a Class-III employee of the DGHS, as he amazed huge wealth worth about Taka crores through illegal means.
The investigation found that Malek owns three multi-storey buildings in the capital, 24 flats, a dairy firm within 15-kathas of land and some other properties, worth over Taka100 crore.
“During the preliminary interrogation, Malek admitted his involvement in doing transfer business for earning money . . . He also said land properties in capital’s Hatirpool and Turag areas are from his ancestral assets,” Lt Colonel AshiqueBillah added.
It is known that Malek passed only Class-VIII and joined Savar Health Project as driver in 1982.
Subsequently, he embezzled a huge amount of money and assets doing business of firearms and counterfeit notes.
On October 22 in 2019, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned him for his alleged involvement in siphoning off several crores money abroad.
RAB, however, handed over Malek to Turag police station.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court put him on seven-day remand for quizzing him more as police produced him before the court this afternoon.