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The anti-corruption watchdog also said it had received information that four banks in the United States and Thailand had unnatural transactions of “several million rupees” in their name.
ACC (Investigation) Commissioner Mozammel Haque Khan told reporters on Monday.
He said that the information was obtained during the investigation of the case of illegal acquisition of assets. “All of Selim Pradhan’s real and personal property has been seized for the sake of the investigation,” he said. His 50 bank accounts have also been frozen. “
The ACC commissioner said: “Seven companies, including Global Trading, Asia United Entertainment and Tama Home Pattaya Company Limited, owned by Selim Pradhan, have been found in Thailand.”
“Furthermore, financial transactions worth Tk 20 crore on behalf of Selim Pradhan have been found at Bangkok Bank and Sayem Commercial Bank.”
On the other hand, the ACC Mozammel commissioner said that information about the financial transactions of two Selim Pradhan banks has been received at JP Morgan Bank in the United States.
“The ACC has information that Selim used to play casino in Las Vegas and bought casino chips in Las Vegas for millions of rupees,” he said.
“As one, Selim Pradhan smuggled 81 million rupees out of the country, but the source from which he smuggled has not yet been confirmed. No information has been obtained so far about the smuggling of this money into Thailand.”
He said it was not possible to say how much money Selim had smuggled out of the country before the end of the investigation. “The source of the money has not been confirmed yet,” he said. However, the casino business can be a source of this money. “
Casino Selim’s ’13 crore rupees smuggled into Thailand
Commissioner Mozammel Haque Khan hoped that the investigation report of the case would be presented to the commission “soon”.
He said that MLRS and other international legal procedures have been initiated to recover the smuggled money.
Earlier on September 10, ACC Deputy Director and Investigative Officer Gulshan Anwar Pradhan had sent a letter to the Bangladesh Bank requesting that it seize several bank accounts in the name of Selim Pradhan.
On October 26 last year, the ACC filed a case against Selim Pradhan alleging that it had acquired illegal assets worth Tk 12 crore 26 lakh 95,754 through illegal transactions. Subsequently, he was in preventive detention for seven days and was questioned by the investigating officer.
The RAB arrested Selim Pradhan from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on September 30 last year during an anti-casino operation in Dhaka. After that, raids were carried out at his home and office in Gulshan, Banani. During the operation, 29 lakh rupees, a large quantity of foreign liquor and currency from different countries were seized.
From there, seven laptops and two deer skins were seized and Selim’s employees, Akhtaruzzaman and Rokon, were arrested. On the same day, a mobile court sentenced Selim Pradhan to six months in prison under the Wildlife Conservation Act for rescuing deerskin.
The following day, the RAB filed two cases against him under the Narcotics Control and Prevention of Money Laundering Act at the Gulshan Police Station.
Selim Pradhan is the chairman of a business group called “Pradhan Group”. Under the group is a company called P24 Gaming, which has been running casinos and online casinos with regular advertisements on the website.
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