The Rapid Action Battalion has filed two cases against the alleged online casino kingpin, Salim Prodhan, under the Money Laundering and Narcotics Control acts.
A RAB official filed the case with the capital's Gulshan police on Wednesday (Oct 2), Assistant Director (media and legal wing) Mizanur Rahman told Bangla Tribune.
As many as eight people including Salim and three North Korea nationals have been named in the money laundering case.
The accused are Roman, personal assistant to Salim, Simanto Rony, Shanto and Akturuzzaman, and the Korean nationals Tu, Lee and Lim.
Korean national Tu was Salim's business partner, according to RAB.
Besides, Roman and Akturuzzaman were named in narcotics case along with Salim.
On Monday (Sept 30), RAB detained Salim from a Bangkok-bound Thai Airways flight at the Dhaka airport.
Later in the day, the elite police unit raided Salim’s office cum residence at the upscale neighbourhood of Gulshan and arrested his several associates.
RAB seized 48 foreign liquor bottles; nearly Tk 3 million in cash, foreign currencies from 23 different countries, of around Tk7.8 million, 12 passports, 32 cheque books of 13 banks, one large server used in game operating, and four laptops, and two pieces of deer hide.
The next day, Salim and his associates were jailed for 6 months under the Wildlife Conservation Act by a RAB mobile court.