A court in Dhaka has again placed online casino kingpin Salim Prodhan and his associates on remand in a case filed under the money laundering act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order on Sunday (Oct 13) after police pleaded a 10-day remand for the trio.
Salim will face five days in remand while his two associates — Md Aktaruzzaman and Md Roman — will face four days in the case filed with the capital's Gulshan police.
Earlier, on Oct 3, another court had granted police four days to interrogate Salim, Aktaruzzaman and Roman in the narcotics case.
Salim was arrested from a Bangkok-bound Thai Airways flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sept 30, over his alleged involvement in running an online casino business.
Later that night, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided his office and residence in Gulshan and arrested Salim’s associates Aktaruzzaman, Roman, and Masum.
RAB also recovered 48 bottles of foreign liquor, Tk 2.9 million in cash, foreign currencies from 23 different countries worth around Tk7.76 million, 12 passports, 32 cheque books of 13 banks, one large server used in game operating, four laptops and two pieces of deer hide.
A RAB mobile court also sentenced Salim to six months imprisonment for illegally keeping the deer hides.
RAB on Oct 2 filed two cases, one for money laundering and another for possessing narcotics, against Salim at Gulshan police.