Two people, including former senior secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Shah Kamal, were placed on a five-day remand by a Dhaka court on Sunday in a case filed against them under the Foreign Currency Control Act.
The other accused is the senior secretary's business partner Nusrat Hossain.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed passed the order after Mohammadpur Police Station Sub Inspector Mohammad Rezaul, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced the duo before his court with a 10-day remand prayer.
The IO said in his remand prayer, both of the accused failed to show any valid documents about the ownership of foreign currency and gold ornaments.
Moreover, they gave contradictory statements. So they need to be remanded to know more details and to find out if others are involved in the crime.
The defence submitted a prayer seeking bail along with the cancellation of the remand prayer on the grounds that their clients were implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass them. On Saturday police arrested Shah Kamal and Nusrat Hossain from the city's Mohakhali area.
