The court remanded Awami League presidium member and former food minister Advocate Kamrul Islam on eight days remand, which has been granted a remand in the capital's Newmarket police station, which has been granted remand on Tuesday (November 19).
The police had earlier produced him in court and applied for a 10-day remand, and later the court gave the verdict.
Meanwhile, he was arrested from Uttara-12 sector in the capital on Monday night, and Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Rezaul Karim Mallik confirmed this information.
The police officer said he was arrested from a house in Uttara around 11 pm and was brought to the DB office and he will be produced in court tomorrow.
According to the preliminary investigation of the ACC, Kamrul Islam has embezzled a large amount of money from Brazil by importing low quality wheat from Brazil, while in the title of the food minister of the former Aomi League government, he has kept two lands and flats in the capital in his own name. There are also two land-crosser Gauges in the name of himself and his wife-signaway.
Also, during his tenure as Minister of State for Law, Kamrul Islam has also been accused of taking bribes of crores of rupees through corruption and corruption in the lower court.
The latest addition to this list is the latest additions to the former ministers and MPs since the fall of the Awami League government in the face of a violent mass agitation on August 5.
Currently, he is serving as the joint general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League Dhaka Metropolitan Branch. Kamrul Islam became a Member of Parliament from Dhaka-2 Constituency (Savar-Keraniganj-Kamrangirchar) in the 2008 National Parliament Election. He was given the status of Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
In the 10th parliamentary elections held in 2014, he became a Member of Parliament from the same area and became a member of Parliament in 2014.
