Staff Reporter :
An Awami League leader and alleged fraudster Bellal Hossain and his wife Reshma Akhter Rita have fraudulently embezzled TK 20 crore by floating a business firm titled Nexus Developer Company.
Falling into their trap, many people become have lost business capital in Dubai and Bangladesh.
It is further alleged that in carrying out his misdeeds in the name of business Bellal Hossain had kidnapped many shareholders of the company at the instruction of former DB chief Harun-or-Rashid and kept them confined at secret locations for a long time.
Marking public the issue, a victim businessman named Md. Jasim Uddin has demanded urgent intervention from the Chief Advisor, Home Affairs Advisor and other concerned departments to save him from his hands.
In addition, Bellal Hossain has harassed him by filing 14 false cases against him to cover up his crime. Out of these, 10 cases have been dismissed. The final investigation report on one case has been submitted to the court and the remaining cases are being investigated by the CID.
Md. Jasim Uddin made this allegation on Sunday at a press conference organized at the Bangladesh Crime Reporters Association (CRAB) at Segunbagicha, Dhaka.
Other victims, including Jasim Uddin, Engineer Shafiul Alam and Saiful Islam, were present in the conference.
In a written statement, Md. Jasim Uddin alleged that while doing business in Dubai, I met the fraudster Bellal Hossain while performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia. He lured me into doing business with him by promising more profits for several days.
Later, he formed a company called Nexus Developer Limited. Jasim was made the chairman of that company. His wife was also made the director and fraudster Bellal Hossain made himself the MD and his wife Reshma Akhter Rita the director.
Later, Bellal moved the office from Gulfesa Bhaban in Moghbazar to another place without informing Jasim and others shareholders.
In the meantime, he received taka 20 crore in cash and through pay orders and cheques from 2011 to 2013 for buying land and plots of the company.
Later, the victim came to the country and found that Billal Hossain and his wife had withdrawn the money from the bank by forging his signature. With that money, Billal bought 3/4 flats and 2 cars for them.
He further alleged that Bellal Hossain bought fake ownership and government khas land and water development board land, showed a higher value on it and accepted investment money from him at a rate of 50%.
