Staff Correspondent

Construction mogul GK Shamim has Tk 337.30 crore in 180 fixed deposit accounts with different banks, two houses in the capital and 52 kathas of land worth Tk 41 crore, according to charges pressed before a Dhaka court on Wednesday.

Shamim, a top contractor of government projects, amassed the wealth through tender manipulation at government departments and extortion at bus terminals and cattle markets, mentioned the chargesheet filed against him and his seven bodyguards.

Abu Sayeed, additional special superintendent of organised economic crime unit at Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who is investigating a money-laundering case against Shamim, gave the information to The Daily Star last night, citing the chargesheet.

Shamim was trying to siphon off the illegal money abroad, Sayeed added.