Staff Correspondent:

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has arrested Sadeeq Agro Chairman Imran Hossain in a Tk133 crore money laundering case.

Special Superintendent of Police Jasim Uddin of the CID’s Media Wing confirmed the matter to The Business Standardon Monday (March 3).

The CID’s Financial Crime Unit filed the case with Mohammadpur Police Station today under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The case statement alleges that Sadeeq Agro brought cows from Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar and Thailand into the country through smuggling, fraud and forgery. Sadeeq Agro was also accused of fraudulently advertising Bangladeshi cows and goats as animals of foreign breed and selling them at high prices in sacrificial animal markets.

Sadeeq Agro came under scrutiny last year after a controversy over a Tk15 lakh goat which they reportedly sold to Mushfiqur Rahman Ifat, son of ex-National Board of Revenue member Matiur Rahman.

Later, several agencies, including the Anti-Corruption Commission and the National Board of Revenue, started investigating potential irregularities involving Sadeeq Agro.