A court has granted a one-day remand to two employees of Medi Graphic Trading Ltd in a case of embezzlement and damage caused by forging tenders of the Directorate General of Defence Procurement. The accused taken on remand are Md. Rabiul Karim (45) and Shantanu Kumar Das (46).
The accused were produced in court from the jail on Monday (April 29). Then, a hearing was held on the application filed by the investigation officer, Gulshan Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Bilal Al Azad, on April 24, to take the accused on a five-day remand. On that day, the lawyers applied for bail for the accused. After the hearing, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farah Diba Chanda rejected the bail of the accused and granted a one-day remand.
On April 24, the investigating officer of the case presented the accused in court and applied for a five-day remand for the sake of a fair investigation of the case. On the other hand, the accused applied for the remand to be canceled and bail was sought. Hearing both sides, the court rejected the bail of the accused and ordered to send them to jail. At the same time, it fixed April 29 for the remand hearing.
Police Sub-Inspector Shah Alam, an officer of the General Registration Branch of Gulshan Police Station, confirmed this information in court.
According to the complaint, according to the employment rules of the company (Medi Graphic Trading Ltd.), no employee can work in the business of similar products or in any other organization while employed. The company has been working as the sole distributor of Japanese companies Fuji Film and Shimadzu for a long time. Accused No. 1, namely Md. Rabiul Karim, was instructed to conduct official activities in the Directorate General of Defense Procurement, Ministry of Defense on behalf of the company. On April 1, the company came to know through a show cause notice from the Directorate General of Defense Procurement, Ministry of Defense that while employed in the company, accused No. 1 participated in a tender for another organization called The Creative International with the aim of defrauding and embezzling government money by concealing information from government organizations. And signed as the CEO and managing partner of that organization. He is also associated with another organization called Technology International. From the show cause notice, the company learned that the second accused, Shantanu Kumar Das, has been doing such illegal activities for a long time as a business partner of the accused Rabiul. The accused Rabiul fraudulently issued a letter from the Directorate General of Defence Procurement on April 13, using a forged company letterhead and a forged signature, stating that he was the company's representative.
By concealing information, accused No. 1 embezzled a huge amount of money from his personal and the company named The Creative International Medi Graphic Company and the accused acquired many properties anonymously under different names. Although they were employed in the company with a small salary. Through illegal acquisition, accused Rabiul became the owner of 4 luxurious flats in Dhaka, a garden house in Rangpur, and 50 bighas of land in Natore. When the accused were asked for the account of the sale of goods, they failed to provide the account. Accused Shantanu illegally and illegally embezzled the company's money through various forgeries and frauds and deposited a large amount of money in the bank anonymously.
The accused participated in the tender in the name of The Creative International and embezzled money from Medi Graphic Trading Ltd. by creating fake documents showing the full cost. From December 22, 2021 to April 1, 2024, they embezzled about twenty crore taka from Medi Graphic Trading Ltd. and caused a business loss of about thirty crore taka.
In this incident, Medi Graphic's admin officer Sheikh Zakir Hossain filed a case with Gulshan Police Station as the plaintiff. In the case, the accused were charged with forgery with the intention of defrauding, using forged documents, embezzling company funds and causing damage.
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