GK Shamim remanded again

A Dhaka court put GK Shamim, a top government listed contractor and also a Jubo League leader, on a nine-day fresh remand in connection with arms and money laundering cases.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the order on Wednesday after police produced Shamim before it with a seven-day remand prayer for grilling him in arms case and ten-day remand plea for quizzing the accused in money laundering case.

After hearing the remand pleas, the court granted five-day remand prayer in the money laundering case while four days for the case under the Arms Act.

Abdur Rahman Hawlader and Asaduzzaman Kochi stood for Shamim in the court.

On Tuesday, another Dhaka court placed Shamim’s seven bodyguards on four-day remand each for interrogation in the same case.

On September 20, a mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) led by Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam raided Shamim’s business office at Niketan in Gulshan and recovered around Taka two crore in cash, Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) of about Tk 165 crore. 

The elite force also seized eight firearms, a huge amount of ammunition, a large stash of US and Singaporean dollars and some foreign liquor.

Shamim and his seven bodyguards were arrested from the office at that time.

The following day, RAB filed three cases, one under arms act, one under narcotics act and another under money laundering prevention act.

On the same day, Shamim was placed on a 10-day remand in cases filed under the Arms Act and Narcotics Control Act.