An anti-narcotics team has seized casino equipment and alcohol from industrialist Aziz Mohammad Bhai’s home in Gulshan.
According to bdnews24.com, the team started the raid shortly before 5:00pm Sunday, said Khurshid Alam, assistant director of the Department of Narcotics Control.
“The drive is ongoing. We’ve so far found casino equipment, liquor, beer and shisha,” said Khurshid Alam, assistant director at the Department of Narcotics Control.
The DNC officials raided two buildings on the same plot. The gambling equipment were found on the rooftop of one of the buildings and “huge” liquor in a room on the third floor of the other building, the officials said.
They detained Md Nabin Mandal and Parvez, caretakers of the buildings.
Nabin said he had never seen Aziz Mohammad in seven to eight years since he took the job.
Parvez said he was in charge of taking care of the third floor, but never entered the room where the liquor was found.
The DNC’s drive came amid an ongoing government crackdown on illegal gambling, extortion, contract-grabbing, corruption and other wrongdoings.
The special tribunal on the stock markets last year ordered Aziz Mohammad’s arrest in a case over the 1996 share market scam.
He went abroad and had been staying there before the arrest warrant was issued.
Known also as a film producer, Aziz Mohammad Bhai’s name came up in investigations into the deaths of actors Sohel Chowdhury and Salman Shah.
