Trial of GK Shamim starts

A Dhaka court has framed charges against SM Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim and his seven bodyguards in a money laundering case.

Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam of Dhaka Special Judges Court-10 passed an order framing the charges against the accused.

The court also fixed November 19 for taking evidence in the case.

The other seven accused in the case are – Delwar Hossain, Murad Hossain, Md Jahidul Islam, Shahidul Islam, Jamal Hossain, Samshad Hossain and Aminul Islam.

On October 5, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayesh transferred the case to Dhaka Special Judges Court-10 for further proceedings.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Additional Superintendant of Police (Economic Crime Squad) Abu Sayeed, on August 4,  filed the charge sheet in the case against the eight, making 26 people witnesses.

On September 21, 2019, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) 1 Nayek Subedar Mizanur Rahman filed the case under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012 with Gulshan Police Station.

A mobile court of the RAB led by Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam surrounded Shamim’s business office at Niketan and conducted a raid in the afternoon of September 20, 2019.

Shamim, who used to con people by identifying himself as a leader of Jubo League, was detained along with his seven bodyguards and around Taka two crore in cash and Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) of about Taka 165 crore, seized from his Niketan office. Apart from the money, the elite anti-crime force also recovered illegal firearms, ammunition and drugs from Shamim’s office.