Dhaka, Oct 25 (bdnews24.com)–Destiny-2000 Limited Managing Director Rafiqul Amin and Chairman Mohammad Hossain on Thursday confessed to embezzling money before a magistrates court in Dhaka.
Magistrates Saifur Rahman and Harun-or-Rashid of the Chief metropolitan Magistrate's Court recorded their confessional statements in two separate money-laundering cases from noon to afternoon, counsel for the Anti-Corruption Commission Advocate Mosharraf Hossain Kajal told bdnews24.com.
The duo was sent to jail after their confessional statement that they had swindled huge amount of money from its tree plantation project through corruption and fraudulence in collaboration with other officials.
They were placed on an 18-day remand on Oct 17 in connection with two money laundering cases.
The High Court on Oct 18 granted bail to the Destiny Group President M Harun-Ar-Rashid for two months in the two cases, on condition that he would not communicate with the Group.
On July 31, the antigraft watchdog sued top 22 officials of Destiny-2000, including its Chairman, President and Managing Director, in two separate money-laundering cases on charges of embezzling over Tk 35 billion from its hundreds of clients by swindling them.
ACC Assistant Director Towfiqul Islam and Deputy Director Mozahar Ali Sardar filed the cases with the Kalabagan Police Station under sections 4 (2) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2004 and 4 (2)/(3) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012 on charges of misappropriating the money in the names of Tree Plantation Project and Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society.
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