Monday, August 6, 2012 Five Destiny Group high-ups including its managing director accused in two money laundering cases surrendered before a Dhaka court on Monday and sought bail.The accused are: Destiny Group Managing Director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin and Director Lt Gen (rtd) M Harunur Rashid; Destiny 2000 Chairman Mohammad Hossain and its two directors Gofranul Huq and Sayed-ur Rahman.
On July 31, Anti-Corruption Commission sued 22 officials of Destiny Group for laundering Tk 3,285.26 crore by cheating investors.
They surrendered before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Erfan Ullah around 10:00am and filed two separate bail petitions in connection with the two cases.
The court will hear the bail petitions later in the day.
The accused sought bail after their surrender as police would arrest them without issuance of an arrest warrant by a court since the offences they allegedly committed are cognisable.
As per rule, police would arrest a suspected accused if the offences are cognisable.
ACC Deputy Director Mozahar Ali Sarder filed a case with the capital's Kalabagan Police Station against 12 Destiny Group officials for laundering about Tk 2106.64 crore out of Destiny Tree Plantation Ltd project.
ACC Assistant Director Towfiqul Islam filed another case against 22 top officials of the company, including the 12 accused in the first case, for laundering Tk 1178.61 crore from Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd (DMCSL).
CASE DETAILS
After filing of the cases, ACC Deputy Director Mozahar Ali Sardar at a press briefing at its Segunbagicha office said the DTPL authorities illegally collected Tk 2335.74 crore from people by selling 6.18 crore trees through multilevel marketing between March, 2006 and April this year.
In its probe, the ACC found that Tk 2106.64 crore were laundered from the DTPL project in the name of salary, honorarium, dividend, commission, incentive and promotional cost, he said.
The DMCSL authorities embezzled Tk 1178.61 crore by cheating people and transferred the money to other non-profitable and non-operational companies of Destiny Group, said ACC Assistant Director Towfiqul.
He said the commission filed the second case against the Destiny officials for violating the Cooperatives Act by transferring money to other non-profitable and non-operational companies.
The ACC officials said only Tk 56 lakh and another Tk 4.87 crore were left with the two bank accounts of the DMCSL and the DTPL after the company officials transferred the huge amount of money.
They said the Destiny officials tricked people into investing money in the DTPL project, saying if anyone invested Tk 8,000 under a “golden package,” the person would get Tk 20,000 after six years with a 72.46 percent interest.
And under the company's “silver package”, the investor would get Tk 30,000 against an investment of Tk 5,000 after 12 years with a 195.74 percent interest.
The Destiny officials took a commission of Tk 4,260 to 4,300 from each investment of Tk 8,000 and a commission of Tk 3,775 from each investment of Tk 5,000.
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