10 including doctors remanded

Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday placed ten people including health practitioners on a one-day remand each in a case filed about laundering money, which was eventually earned by them through leaking medical admission test questions.

As the accused Dr ZM Salehin Shovon, Dr Muhammad Moyez Uddin Ahmed, Dr Abu Rayhan, Dr Zillur Hasan, Md Rowshon Ali, Md Zahirul Islam Bhuiyan, Imrul Kayes Himel, Akhtaruzzaman Khan Tushar, Jahiruddin Ahmed Bappi and Abdul Kuddus Sarker were produced in the court on Tuesday and the prosecution pleaded to put them on remand.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim rejected the bail plea of the defense and put each on remand for a day.

Earlier on August 20, Investigation Officer of the case CID Sub-Inspector Md Mehedi Hasan pleaded for ten-day remand of each suspect to conduct proper investigation.

On February 28, 2021, CID Senior Assistant Police Super Jewel Chakma filed a money laundering case against 14 people with Dhanmondi Police Station in the capital.

“Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested the 12 persons including physicians on charge of leaking medical admission test questions from different places of the country between July 30 and August 9 this year.

The racket has been found involved in leaking medical college admission test question at least 10 times over the last 16 years since 2001,” CID Chief Mohammad Ali Mia, Additional Inspector General of police told a press conference on August 9.

“CID has found evidence of transacting large amounts of money from the bank accounts of the detainees”.

The matter is currently under investigation about potential money laundering,” the CID Chief added.