Gulshan extortion: Tk 22.5m cheques seized from Riyad’s house

Staff Reporter :

Police seized cheques worth Tk 2.25 crore from the house of Abdur Razzak Riyad, who was earlier arrested for allegedly attempting to extort money from a former MP’s house in Gulshan.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) of DMP’s Detective Police Muhammad Talebur Rahman confirmed the matter in a press conference at Mintoo Road in DMP media center on Wednesday.

Muhammad Talebur Rahman said the accused of Tk 5 million in extortion at the former lawmaker’s residence in the capital’s Gulshan were grilled. Four cheques of Tk 22.5 million were recovered based on information gleaned from them.

The process was on to file a case at the Kalabagan police station in this connection, he added.
Abdur Razzak Bin Solaiman was a central committee member of Ganatantrik Chattra Sangsad, but he was expelled from the party following the extortion.

Several months back, Ganatantrik Chattra Sangsad was launched as a student organisation at the initiative of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement leaders. Prior to this, Anti-Discrimination Student Movement announced a convening committee for the combined private university unit in February, and Abdur Razzak was one of the joint conveners in it.

At the press conference, it was further said that police operations have been intensified across Dhaka city to ensure public safety and maintain law and order. As part of these efforts, the number of checkpoints and patrol activities in the metropolitan area has been increased.

Talebur Rahman said, according to the DMP’s Crime Command and Control Center, 471 patrol teams of the DMP carried out duties in two phases across 50 police stations under DMP in the past 24 hours. Of these, 259 teams operated at night, while 212 teams were active during the day.

The patrol teams included 212 mobile patrol teams, 20 foot patrol teams, and 27 motorcycle patrol teams. Besides, 66 police checkpoints were set up at various key and strategic locations in the city to increase security in the city.

It was reported at the press conference that, 186 individuals were arrested during combing operations conducted at various parts of Dhaka city in the past 24 hours.

Among them were one robber, five thieves, 13 drug dealers, two fraudsters, and 12 warrant-listed accused, along with others involved in different crimes.