A case was filed against former Expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Imran Ahmad, former senior secretary Ahmed Munirus Saleheen and 101 others over human trafficking and embezzlement of Tk 24,000 crore.
Confirming the matter, Paltan police station officer-in-charge Mollah Khalid told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that a person named Altab Khan filed the case on Tuesday accusing 103 persons.
The other 101 accused are the owners and officials of different recruiting agencies who send Bangladeshi workers abroad.
The accused included Masud Uddin Chowdhury, managing director of M International Ltd, Ruhul Amin, proprietor of Catharsis International, Hasan Ahmed Chowdhury Kiron, managing director of Merit Trade International and others.
Besides, 40 to 50 unidentified people were also accused in the case.
Plaintiff Altab Khan, proprietor of Afia Overseas, in the case said that these people were the members of a human trafficking gang.
According to the case statement, the accused were involved in a syndicate and took extra money from thousands of labourers.
‘They demanded a toll of Tk 1,50,000 from me. I was told that I would not be able to do business if I did not give that toll,’ he said in the case statement.
He said that he had to pay Tk 12,56,0,1000 between November 2022 and May 2024.
‘Besides, I lost about Tk 20 crore because of the accused,’ he said.