A Dhaka court on Sunday set May 25 for submitting probe report in a case lodged against expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon for amassing illegal wealth of over six crore taka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayes set the date as the investigation officer (IO) could not file the report today.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Shaheen Ara Momtaz filed the case against Papia and her husband with its Dhaka District Office-1 on August 4, 2020, for amassing illegal wealth of 6.24 crore taka.
According to the case documents, Papia and her husband from October 12, 2019, to February 22, 2020, rented a total of 25 rooms of a five-star hotel in Dhaka and paid over 3.23 crore taka in cash as room rent, bills for bars, spa, laundry and food service.
Papia spent around 40 lakh taka in shopping during her stay at the hotel, but couldn’t show any valid source of income against this huge sum.
Besides, the ACC also did not find any valid sources of 30 lakh taka which Papia paid as rent for her flat from April 2015 to April 2020, one crore taka invested in vehicle trade, 20 lakh taka invested in car wash solution business in Narsingdi and over 30.52 lakh taka deposited in different bank accounts of her and her husband.
On February 22, 2020, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Papia and her husband, along with two of their accomplices, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with counterfeit banknotes, foreign currencies and cash.
RAB later raided their two luxurious flats in the capital’s Indira Road area and recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of foreign liquor and 58.41 taka lakh in cash, among other things.
