RAB arrests businessman in Dhaka for financing terror outfit Hamza Brigade

A businessman has been arrested in Dhaka on charges of financing terror group Shaheed hamza Brigade.

Chittagong Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 12 Oct 2016, 08:25 AM
Updated : 12 Oct 2016, 12:47 PM

AKM Manjur Elahi, 38, was picked up from his home at the capital's Uttara late on Tuesday, said the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

He has been named in the chargesheet submitted by police in Chittagong against 33 persons in an Anti-Terrorism Act case.

A team of Chittagong-based RAB-7 arrested him around 11pm on Tuesday from the Uttara residential area at the northern part of the capital.

"We have evidence that he had given Tk 500,000 Hamza Brigade leader Moniruzzaman Don through banking channels," said RAB-7 Assistant Director Chandan Debnath.

Elahi, involved in apparel and other businesses, hails from Chittagong's Swandip Upazila. He lived at Dhaka's Uttara with his family.

File photo shows firearms seized from operatives of Shaheed Hamza Brigade.

On Feb 21 last year, RAB raided a militant hideout at Chittagong's Banshkhali Upazila where it found a huge cache of arms and arrested five persons. Two more hideouts were found in Chittagong the same month.

In April last year, RAB arrested four persons with firearms in the Chittagong city. That is when it confirmed the emergence of the group Shaheed Hamza Brigade.

Three lawyers, including barrister Shakila Farjana, daughter of Chittagong BNP leader Syed Wahidul Alam, were arrested in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Aug 18 last year for allegedly providing more than Tk 10 million to the terrorist organisation.