Utpal, Aziz confess to money laundering for ex-land minister Javed | Others

CHATTOGRAM, Sept 22, 2025 (BSS) - Utpal and Aziz, two alleged associates of ex-land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, today made confessional statements before a magistrate court here admitting their involvement in laundering money abroad in favor of their boss Javed. A team of the Anti-Corruption Commission arrested Utpal Paul and Abdul Aziz from the city’s Agrabad area on September 17 last and placed them on 5-day remand. The detainees today confessed their active involvement in laundering Tk 25 crore, the amount embezzled through fraudulent means from United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL) by Javed, before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate S M Alauddin Mahmud under Section 164 of the CrPC. ACC’s Public Prosecutor Mokarram Hossain said both Utpal and Aziz today...