Selim Prodhan sues five, including Aziz and Benazir, for 'demanding Tk100cr as extortion money'

A case was filed against five persons, including former army chief General (retd) Aziz Ahmed and former inspector general of police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed for allegedly demanding Tk100 crore as extortion from a businessman in September 2019.  

Selim Prodhan, a businessman in the capital's Gulshan area, popularly known as Casino Selim, today (19 September) filed the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ali Haider.

The other three accused in the case are Haris Ahmed and Tofail Ahmed alias Joseph, both brothers of Gen (retd) Aziz and Lt Col Shafiullah Bulbul, former Commanding Officer (CO) of RAB-3.

Upon the hearing, the magistrate recorded the statement of the complainant and asked the Crime Investigation Department (CID) to submit an investigation report within the shortest possible time.

Selim, in his complaint, mentioned that the then RAB-3 official Shafiullah Bulbul, following an order of the then IGP Benazir and army chief Aziz Ahmed, went to his Gulshan residence on 7 September 2019 and demanded a 'Range Rover' jeep as extortion.

The RAB official again on 24 September went to the residence of Selim Prodhan and demanded Tk100 crore as extortion. Otherwise, he was threatened with being accused in a casino case.

The complainant said the RAB official along with his team picked him up from a Thailand-bound aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal Airport and forcibly took him to the RAB-1 office on 30 September of the same year.

The team led by Shafiullah Bulbul tortured him mercilessly and threatened to kill him if he failed to give a Range Rover jeep and Taka 100 crore as extortion, Selim Prodhan said, adding that they also snatched away his belongings, including dollars-worth about Tk10 crore from him.