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Money Laundering by Destiny

Arrest order for 46

Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against the Managing Director of Destiny Group Rafiqul Amin, Destiny 2000 President Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid and 49 others in two money laundering cases involving around Tk 4,200 crore.
Judge Mohammad Zahirul Haque of the Senior Special Judge's Court of Dhaka also issued an arrest warrant for 46 out of 51 of the company's staff, including Rafiqul's wife Farah Diba.
After issuing the arrest warrant, the court directed officers-in-charge of different police stations concerned to submit reports before it by July 13 on execution of the order.
The court also fixed July 13 as the next date for hearing of the cases.
The judge granted bail to Harun as he had secured bail from the High Court.
Rafiqul and three other accused are now behind bars while 46 others are absconding.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on May 4 pressed charges against the 51 people accused in the two cases.
They were charged with misappropriating funds through Destiny Tree Plantation (DTPL) project and from Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd (DMCSL), according to ACC.
The group's irregularities came under the spotlight in early 2012 after the central bank found that it had been involved in illegal banking.
Various newspapers, including The Daily Star, ran reports on massive irregularities in the group's cooperative, tree plantation and multilevel marketing wings.
In July 2012, the ACC filed two cases against 22 Destiny officials on charges of laundering money.
Top officials of Destiny misappro-
priated about Tk 4,200 crore through its tree plantation project and the cooperative firm and laundered this money abroad, the charge sheets state.
The officials embezzled the money in the name of paying salaries, honoraria, commission, incentives and promotional costs. They transferred the money to their bank accounts and those of the 20 companies under the group.
At the same time, they also misappropriated Tk 2,433 crore from 17.5 lakh investors by claiming that they had sold 6.18 crore saplings under the tree plantation project. In reality the group planted only 32 lakh trees, according to the ACC's findings.