Online Casino: Selim sentenced 8 years jail in ACC case
The court sentenced online casino businessman Selim Pradhan to eight years in prison in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Besides, he was fined taka 11 lakh.
On Sunday (April 30), Dhaka's Special Judge Court-8 of Md. Badrul Alam Bhuiyan announced this verdict. The case was filed alleging illegal embezzlement of Taka 57.79 crore and laundering of around Taka 22 crore.
In this case, he was initially accused of acquiring illegal wealth of Taka 12 crore 27 lakh 95 thousand 754. After investigating the case, the main plaintiff in the case, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Gulshan Anwar, finally found evidence of illegal assets of more than 57 crore taka in his name.
The court said in its observations, “Don’t engage corrupts in marriage ties; don’t invite them to social events, corrupt people should be socially boycotted”.
Earlier on September 30, 2019, RAB-1 arrested Selim Pradhan from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while going to Bangkok on a Thai Airways flight. After raiding his home and office at Gulshan and Banani, Taka 29 lakh, huge amount of foreign liquor and currency of different countries were seized.
Apart from seizing seven laptops and two deer skins, Selim's employees Aktaruzzaman and Rokon were arrested. On the same day, Selim Pradhan was sentenced to six months imprisonment under the Wildlife Conservation Act in the case of deer skin recovery.
