New legal pressure has been mounted against the top leadership of Beximco Group. A case has been filed in Dhaka against six people, including the company’s vice chairman Salman F. Rahman and chairman A.S.F. (Sohel) Rahman, on charges of fraud.
Three Beximco Aviation pilots – Captain Mahbub Alam, Captain Mohammad Rashedul Amin and Captain Zahidur Rahman – filed the case in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Nazmin Akhter on Sunday, alleging that Tk 12.055 crore was fraudulently embezzled by not paying their outstanding salaries and allowances.
Beximco Aviation official Abdullah Khan Majlish, his brother Imran Khan Majlish, Gulzar Hossain and Syed Samiul Wadud have also been charged in the case. The court has assigned the CID to investigate the allegations.
The pilots claim that they joined Beximco Aviation in 2021, but were dismissed from their jobs in February this year without any payment of dues. They later learned that the company was effectively a “sham entity” through which professional services were procured but had no basis for financial transparency.
Salman F. Rahman, who has long been criticized for stock market manipulation, bank loan embezzlement, and money laundering abroad, is currently in prison; several of his family members are reported to be living abroad, according to various sources.
Concerned parties believe that this new case will further complicate the ongoing investigation and legal process against the top leadership of the Beximco Group.