DHAKA — The Financial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a case against Diamond World managing director Dilip Kumar Agarwala on charges of smuggling gold and diamonds and laundering 678 crore taka (about $55 million) abroad. The case was filed at Gulshan Police Station in the capital on Tuesday morning.
The CID’s Financial Crime Unit began investigating Diamond World and people linked to its interests on Sept. 3 last year over allegations of gold and diamond smuggling.
Agarwala is alleged to have run nominal showrooms in various districts that passed off high-grade glass as real diamonds, controlled a gold-smuggling syndicate operating in Dubai and Singapore, owned three jewelry shops and 11 houses in Kolkata, India, and amassed substantial illegal assets in Malaysia, Dubai and Canada, according to investigators.
The unit also opened a money-laundering inquiry after receiving allegations that he had fraudulently invested 40 crore taka to become a director of a bank.
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