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Once, he used to supply vegetables to the Mohammadpur fresh market at wholesale prices. Later he bought a shop in that market. The family lived on the income from that shop. For a while, he was involved in various criminal activities due to his business. He was also accused of stealing manhole covers on the road. He was also known as the boss of a robbery gang. Later he tried to move closer to power. When the ruling party emerged from the shadows to become a millionaire in a few years. The money earned illegally was smuggled abroad. He established a reign of terror in the Mohammadpur area by abusing his power through tenders, casino control, extortion, commission trading, occupation of shops and his own cadre strength.
He is Habibur Rahman Mizan alias Pagla Mizan, a three-time Dhaka North 32nd Ward councillor. He was remanded in seven-day custody yesterday after being arrested on Friday.
During initial questioning, he said he had Rs 24 crore deposited in a foreign bank. According to BroadCast Unitedligence sources, the remand interrogation will reveal more information about his assets.
According to RAB sources, he had smuggled around Rs240 million to a bank in Thailand. In the Thai capital of Bangkok, a young man named Sumon owned a bar. In the 90s, Sumon was the publicity secretary of the Mohammadpur Tana Chhatra League. He now lives in Thailand. Meezan also occasionally goes to Thailand for vacation. According to the source, he secretly deposited the money in banks in Thailand. Moreover, he also connived with another casino don Lokman Hossain Bhuiya, who was arrested by RAB. RAB received a complaint that he had been in partnership with him to run the casino business. Lieutenant Colonel Sarwar bin Qasim, director of the Legal and Media Department of RAB, told Human Land yesterday that the police had remanded him. The rest of the information will be provided in our remand.
A responsible official of the RAB BroadCast Unitedligence wing said that in 1989, Habibur Rahman Mizan came to Dhaka from Jalkati to his relative’s house in Hazaribag Beriband area. He came to Dhaka from his village hoping to find a job but failed to find one and fell into depression. At one time, he was involved in a robbery gang. He is considered a tainted accused in police records. At one time, Mohammadpur started supplying vegetables to the fresh market. He used to buy raw vegetables from Kauran Bazar and then sell them to retail traders in Mohammadpur area at wholesale prices. At one time, he opened a shop in that market. He is still called “Sabji Mizan” by some shopkeepers in Mohammadpur Rawalpindi market. His wheel of fortune began in 1994 after he was elected as the general secretary of the undivided Dhaka city Mohammadpur Thana Awami League. According to sources, Meezan traveled to Thailand many times.
RAB detectives also found many reasons to go there. One of them was that his illegal funds were in several banks in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. A person named Suman Mahmood assisted him in taking and keeping the money. According to RAB, Suman was the leader of the Chhatra League in Mohammadpur area in 1990. He was one of the accused in the killing of Rakib in Mohammadpur area in 1992. He fled to Thailand to avoid arrest by the police. He never came back from there. He opened a barbecue restaurant in Bangkok. He also owned several business establishments there. According to sources, Mizan knew Suman before. Suman was in touch with Mizan from time to time through various channels. Mizan mainly got advice from Suman on where to deposit illegal funds. Suman volunteered to open accounts for him in several banks in Thailand. Mizan smuggled the money from the country to abroad. According to RAB, Mizanur Rahman Mizan was in touch with casino don Lokman Hossain Bhuiya, who was arrested earlier. Mizan built a casino empire by renting multiple apartments in Mohammadpur area. Mizan himself admitted to the RAB that Lokman was travelling there.
Two cases against ‘crazy’ Mizan, remanded for 7 days
RAB has filed two cases against Habibur Rahman Mizan alias Pagla Mizan, the councillor of Ward 32 of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). One case has been registered under the Money Laundering Act at the Mohammadpur police station of the DMP, while another case has been registered under the Arms Act at the Srimangal police station in Moulvibazar. Mohammadpur police station case number 31 and Srimangal police station case number 15. Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police produced Pagla Mizan before the court yesterday and applied for 10-day remand in the money laundering case. The court granted his remand for seven days. Earlier, CID inspector Gias Uddin produced Mizan before the court and applied for remand. At that time, the accused lawyers filed a bail application against the remand. Dhaka City Magistrate Nivana Khair JC granted the remand after hearing both parties.
Earlier on Friday, the RAB team arrested Mizan from Srimangal as he was fleeing abroad. Two lakh cash, a pistol and four bullets were recovered from his possession. Later in the afternoon, police conducted searches at his Ramatiya office and Aurangzeb’s apartment in Mohammadpur. Meanwhile, several bank cheques worth Tk 6 crore and Tk 7.7 crore and FDR worth Tk 1 crore were seized from his house.
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