The Criminal Investigation Department has seized assets worth Tk聽500 crore belonging to manpower businessman Ruhul Amin Swapon and some other individuals and organisations linked to him.
Following a court order, financial crime unit of the CID attached the wealth of Swapon, ringleader of a syndicate exporting manpower to Malaysia, said a CID press release issued on Wednesday.
The CID said that Ruhul Amin laundered a huge amount of money abroad under the cover of manpower business.
Ruhul Amin had established a syndicate and amassed wealth of about Tk聽8,000 crore by collecting money from a large number of people, giving hope of sending them to Malaysia with jobs.
Ruhul Amin has 231 kathas of land worth about Tk聽15.55 crore at the Bashundhara residential area, Banani and Uttara areas in the capital Dhaka in the name of his manpower export organisation Catharsis International.
The CID in its release said that the value of all immovable properties of Catharsis International and related installations was about Tk 500 crore, which was belonged to Ruhul Amin.
The investigation of the CID was ongoing against Ruhul Amin and other members of his syndicate, the release added.
