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| Monir Hossain alias 'Golden Monir' was arrested in November 2020 |
The court acquitted Monir Hossain alias Golden Monir in the arms case. In the judgment, the court said, a police officer said that the weapons were licensed in the names of Monir and his wife. So keeping two illegal weapons in the name of himself and his wife while having another illegal weapon in the house is not normal and credible.
The court also said that the state party has completely failed to prove the fact that weapons were recovered from under the mattress of the bed in the bedroom of Monir Hossain's Badda house on November 20, 2020 at 6:30 am.
In a weapons case filed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md. Asaduzzaman gave this judgment recently.
Tapas Kumar Pal, Additional Public Prosecutor of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court handling the case for the state, told Prothom Alo that the court acquitted Monir Hossain in the arms case. An appeal against the judgment will be subject to review after receiving the full judgment.
However, Monir's lawyer Dabir Uddin told Prothom Alo, "It has been proven in the judgment that a weapons case was filed against Monir for the purpose of harassing him."
Later, on May 11, 2022, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police filed a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after receiving evidence of Monir's illegal assets and proceeds of crime. The investigation of this case is not over. Apart from this, the Special Powers Act and the case of acquisition of known non-income assets are at the stage of taking evidence.
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| RAB raided house number 41 of road number 13 of Merul Badda in Monir |
Acquittal for that reason in arms case
According to the information of the court verdict, RAB said in the case, on November 22, 2020, RAB raided Monir Hossain's Badda residence at six in the morning. They recovered a pistol with a magazine from under the mattress of the bedroom on the third floor of the house. The recovered weapon did not have a licence. After the case under the Arms Act, the police interrogated Monir on seven-day remand with the permission of the court. Later, the police filed a charge sheet against him in the court. After framing the complaint, 16 witnesses from the state were produced in the court.
The court acquitted Monir Hossain in the arms case. An appeal against the judgment will be subject to review after receiving the full judgment.
—Taaps Kumar Pal, Additional Public Prosecutor,
Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka
The court said that two of the 16 witnesses who testified in the court for the state are public witnesses. All others are policemen. Emad Uddin, public witness number 13 of the case, told the court that on November 20, 2020, RAB members called him while he was working in a drug store at around 10:30 pm. Later, he was kept in a room of Monir's house for the whole night. At midnight (3 pm) RAB officials signed a white paper. He was released at 10:30 am the next day. Mubarak Hossain, the 14th witness in the case, said in his deposition in the court that he was also called by RAB members and taken to Monir's house at around 10:30 pm. The members of RAB also signed the white paper from him.
According to the verdict, the public witness does not support the allegation that weapons and ammunition were recovered from the bedroom of Monir's house in the presence of Emad and Mubarak. Analyzing the evidence of the state's witnesses, it is proved that Monir's residence is not at 6:30 in the morning; The operation was conducted at 10:30 pm. A raid was conducted at Monir's house for a special purpose. The state's case is settled. The testimony given by other witnesses about the recovery of arms and bullets from Monir's bedroom is not at all credible.
According to the verdict, there is no record of forensic examination of the weapon recovered from Monir's house. Again the case is delayed for 19 hours and 15 minutes. The explanation for such a delay is not satisfactory.
According to the information of the verdict, Sub-Inspector (SI) Manik Chandra Roy, a witness in the case, told the court that Monir Hossain was arrested from the second floor of his house. Another witness SI Jamal Hossain and ASI Nazim Uddin said that Monir Hossain was arrested from the third floor of the house. That is, the testimonies of the witnesses are contradictory.
The court also mentioned that the investigating officer of the case, Inspector Abdul Malek, told the court that during the investigation, he came to know that Monir and his wife had two licensed weapons. That is, it is clear from Abdul Malek's testimony that Monir and his wife had two legal weapons in their names. The case of keeping another illegal weapon while having a legal one is not credible.
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| RAB said that 600 pieces of gold ornaments and Tk 1 crore 9 lakh have been seized from Monir's house. |
Smuggling gold from shopkeepers
According to the money laundering case documents, 791 crore 5 lakh 96 thousand 523 rupees were deposited in 129 banks in the name of Golden Monir and his related organizations. Monir converted a part of this income into immovable and immovable properties by investing in joint and sole name businesses with the connivance of organized crime gang members.
After Monir's arrest, RAB said that Monir was a salesman at a cloth shop in Gauchia Market in the 90s. Later he got a job in the crockery shop of Mouchak Market. He then got involved in airport-based luggage parties and gold smuggling. Known as 'Golden Monir'. After joining the luggage party from being a salesman, Moni used to evade tax by bringing in various goods including clothes, cosmetics, electronic products, computer equipment. At one point he got involved in gold smuggling by air.
Meanwhile, CID information says that Golden Money's wife, son and 30 plots including 20 government plots, 15 houses, a residential establishment and two car showrooms were bought in the name of Golden Money with the proceeds of crime. However, in the statement of assets filed with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2009, Monir stated that his immovable assets amount to Tk 3 crore. And the amount of immovable assets is 67 lakhs.
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