Police arrested the managing director and the general manager of unipay2u Bangladesh, a so-called multilevel marketing company, early Sunday on charge of amassing money by cheating people.
Acting on a tip-off, police arrested MD Muntasir Hossain Emon, 37, and GM Jamshedur Rahman, 50, from the capital’s Uttara and Lalbagh around 4:30am, Abu Zafar Manik, a sub-inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station, told The Daily Star.
The duo has been shown arrested in a case filed against them with Mohammadpur Police Station, the SI said.
The MD and GM are also accused in a number of fraud cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka and Chittagong, the SI added.
The head office of unipay2u Bangladesh is located at Mohammadpur.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on January 25 last year filed a case against the company’s Chairman Shahiduzzaman alias Shahin and MD Muntasir on charge of fraudulence.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) of the case, the duo had fraudulently collected Tk 246.13 crore and split the cash into their own and the organisation's accounts to conceal the source of the fund.
The FIR said the company did not obtain BB permission for working as an agent of a Malaysia-based company Best Genius Sdn Bhd, as it is required under the Foreign Currency Control Act, 1947.
According to the FIR, on October 11, 2009, the company was registered with the registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms as a multilevel marketing company.
Between November 1, 2009 and September 30, 2010, unipay2u deposited Tk 246.13 crore in its three accounts.
The FIR mentioned that on several occasions the chairman and the managing director of unipay2u drew Tk 26.12 crore from the accounts in the name of paying commission to its member agents and bearing company expenses.
Most of the money withdrawn was deposited in a personal account of the managing director, the FIR added.
ACC initiated an inquiry against the company after BB sent its probe report to the commission on June 21 in 2011.
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