A Dhaka court has placed Md Imam Hossain Nasim, owner of the Nasim Real Estate and Halima Akhter Salma on 3-day remand in a case filed under the Arms Act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Moinul Islam passed the order Friday after the investigation officer of the case produced the accused before court seeking a 7-day remand plea for each.
Earlier on the day, counsel of the accused filed a bail petition along with remand rejection prayer before the court. However, the court granted a 3-day remand for each of them.
On September 30, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), arrested the owner of Nasim Real Estate Imam Hossain Nasim, a fugitive accused in 55 cases, and his accomplice and third wife Halima Akhter Salma, from Rupnagar area.
During the drive, the RAB also recovered a 6.75 mm foreign pistol, a magazine, three rounds of bullets, counterfeit cash worth 1.35 lakh taka, 1,400 pieces of yaba, two bottles of foreign liquor, four walkie-talkie sets, six passports, cheque books of 36 banks and 32 mobile Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards from their possessions.
The RAB official said Nasim worked as a contractor from 1978 to 1986. But since 2002, he has been using fraudulent tactics and introduced himself as the owner of the so-called Nasim Real Estate Company.
In the name of constructing a residential building, Nasim extracted about 300 crore taka from 5,000 ordinary people by signing fake agreement papers for selling apartments to them, found in the investigation.
Nasim used to use 32 anonymous SIM cards at different times and subsequently went out of reach of the victims of these scams.
Meanwhile, the investigators found some 16 companies owned by Nasim, said a press release.
These include Nasim Real Estate Ltd, Nasim Developer Ltd, Nasim Agro Food Ltd, Nasim Bazar, SB Foundation, Dr Belayet Hossain Medical College and Hospital, Nasim Parcel and Courier Service, Weekly Building Finance, Nasim Ship Builders, Nasim Engineering and Consultancy, Nasim Trading Ltd, Sahana Eye Hospital, Bangla News 18, Nasim Drinking Water, Nasim Refined Sugar and Nasim Beverage.
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