A court has ordered 11 customs officers to be sent to jail in a case over Tk 18.5 crore in money laundering and the embezzlement of Tk 3.71 crore in incentives. When the accused applied for permanent bail, Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md. Shahjahan Kabir passed the order on Sunday.
The accused sent to jail are: NBR customs department assistant commissioners Jahangir Kabir and Mobin Ul Islam; former assistant commissioner Md. Zainal Abedin; revenue officers Jamir Hossain, A H M Nazrul Islam, Amir Hossain Sarkar, Gouranga Chandra Chowdhury, Farid Uddin Sarkar and Md. Manzurul Haque; and former revenue officers Md. Abdus Sattar and Basudeb Pal.
On this, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) prosecutor Delwar Jahan Rumi said: “These 11 accused obtained interim bail from the higher court and surrendered on April 16. That day the court granted them bail until July 12. Accordingly, on Sunday they applied for permanent bail. We opposed it on behalf of the ACC. After the hearing, the court cancelled the bail and ordered them sent to jail.”
The case, over Tk 18.5 crore in money laundering under the guise of exports to five countries and the embezzlement of Tk 3.71 crore in incentives, was filed on November 23, 2025, by ACC deputy director Md. Ahsan Uddin against 26 people, including the 11 customs officers.
According to the case details, the accused colluded to show exports to the UAE, Australia, the United States, Canada and Singapore, and about Tk 18 crore was deposited into the account of a firm called Do Empex Limited. About Tk 3.72 crore was also withdrawn and embezzled as incentives against the value of 34 export shipments, even though no export actually took place. Between 2018 and 2021, Do Empex Limited submitted a total of 41 bills of export and received government incentives. Of these, the export of agricultural products was found to be genuine for seven bills of export, but no goods at all were exported against 34 bills of export. Yet the full amount of US$2,218,017.44 was repatriated to the country through Agrani Bank as an advance against exports, worth Tk 18,60,91,404, and the firm withdrew and embezzled Tk 3,71,81,000 in cash incentives by showing exports.
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