Son of previous Bangla PM Tarique Rehman, locked up for 17 years for corruption and money laundering and for life over the poisonous Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack, has been conspiring from London to manipulate the polls with huge money from Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, according to Bangladesh security establishment.
The Bangladesh government has unearthed a plot by Pak spy agency ISI to influence December 30 parliamentary polls through Opposition BNP by pumping huge sums of money.
Leading Bangla media quoting Rapid Action Force (RAB) reported that a huge sum of money has been brought illegally from out of the country to manipulate parliamentary elections.
"We've frustrated a horrible scheme. Around 1.5 billion Taka came from Dubai through Hundi. The aim was to manipulate the national election,"
Earlier in the day, RAB officials confiscate 80 million Taka in cash, 100 million Taka cheques from export-import firm and contractor United Corporations on the same floor of the City Centre and arrested its Managing Director Ali Haider.
After verdict an election campaign poster of Miah Nuruddin Ahmad Apu, a former supporter personal secretary to Tarique, the RAB raided his Amena Enterprise at Gulshan in Dhaka and arrested two of its officials.
Apu is organization as a BNP candidate in the Dec 30 elections.
Those who got arrested at Amena Enterprise are its General Manager Joynal Abedin and Office Secretary Alamgir Hossain.
Joynal had close links to the 'Hawa Bhaban', a building at Banani that had been the centre of power during the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami government. The RAB chief said United Corporation, United Enterprise and Amena Enterprise were used to bring the money from Dubai. The owner of United Corporation, Mahmudul Hasan, is an migrant living in Dubai.
United Enterprise is owned by Atiqur Rahman, a leader of the BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal from Jhalakathi.
Apu was with Tarique when the son of BNP chief Khaleda Zia travelled to Saudi Arabia to achieve Umrah a few years ago.
Many BNP group expressed uncertainties when the party had named Apu as the candidate for the Shariatpur seat.
RAB was preparing money laundering and terrorism charges against the three arrested.
