Laundering Huge Amounts of Money: 17 Cases Against 28 People of Beximco Including Salman
Salman F. Rahman, the leader of Beximco Group, is among the 28 individuals against whom the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police has filed 17 cases for allegedly smuggling around 83 million US dollars, or one thousand crore taka, overseas under the pretense of export commerce.
The press release that the CID headquarters distributed to the media contained this information.
The documents show that between 2021 and 2024, 17 Beximco Group companies exported goods against 93 letters of credit or sales contracts (LC/Sales Contracts) from Janata Bank Motijheel’s Dilkusha branch. Even after the deadline, the export value was estimated to be around USD 83 million. The dollar was not introduced to the nation by them.
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The news release further stated that the CID has initiated a stand-alone inquiry into claims of money laundering and other financial anomalies involving loans totaling about Tk 33,470 crores made to different Beximco Group entities, all of which remain anonymous.