A Dhaka court on Saturday placed four people, including ACC Director General's (Money Laundering) personal assistant Gautam Bhattacharya, on a three-day remand for allegedly blackmailing people with fake ACC notices to extort money.
The other three accused are - dismissed police constable Md Eskan Ali Khan, Habibur Rahman and Paritosh Mondal.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Humayun Kabir passed the order as DB police produced them before the court and pleaded to place them on 10-day remand for the sake of proper investigation, in an extortion and fraud case filed with Motijheel police station on Friday.
At a press briefing at DMP Media Centre in the city's Minto Road this morning, Additional Police Commissioner and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Branch (DB) chief Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid said the accused were blackmailing two businessmen with fake ACC notices and demanded hefty sums from them.
"Acting on a tip-off, DB police arrested them from a hotel in the Motijheel area on Friday. Fake ACC envelope and notice, four mobile phone sets and cash Tk 1.5 lakh were seized from their possession at that time," the official added.
