STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Henolux Group Managing Director Nurul Amin and Director Fatema Amin, who were arrested on charge of instigating a Kushtia businessman to die by suicide, have admitted that he had invested in their company, Rab said yesterday.

The accused, however, claimed that the amount deceased Gazi Anisur Rahman had invested is not as much as his family is claiming, Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rab’s legal and media wing, told a press conference at Rab media centre in the capital’s Karwan Bazar.

The elite force arrested Nurul and his wife Fatema from the capital’s Uttara area on Tuesday, hours after Anisur’s brother filed a case with Shahbagh police station. The couple was produced before a Dhaka court yesterday with a seven-day remand prayer. The court granted two-day remand for each of them.

In the remand prayer, Sub-inspector Golam Hossain Khan, investigation officer of the case, said the couple took a large amount of money from Anisur, with promises of making him a business partner. But the duo did not return the money, causing him to be extremely distressed.

The 50-year-old businessman, who was a former district Chhatra league president, set himself on fire in front of Jatiya Press Club on Monday. He died hours later, while undergoing treatment for 90 percent burns.

At the press briefing, Moin said from the case statement, they came to know that Anisur invested Tk 1 crore initially and another Tk 26 lakh, after being allured by the potential for huge profits. But he had no written contract.