BD Foods Limited Chairman Badruddoza Chowdhury Momen, accused of smuggling 75.5kg heroin to the UK, yesterday admitted to smuggling 'illegal goods' to the UK in the guise of legitimate export items.
The disclosure by the head of the controversial company came yesterday on the third day of his interrogation by Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
"Although he denied all the allegations on the first two days of remand, the BD Foods chairman today admitted to smuggling out 'illegal goods'," CID Special Superintendent Ibrahim Fatemy, also chief of the probe committee, told reporters yesterday.
After Momen's arrest from BD House in Gulshan on Sunday, the court placed him on a seven-day remand.
Two other accused in the case had named him as the mastermind behind the trafficking of heroin in their confessional statements. Former official of the company Nazmul Haider Bulbul said in his confessional statement made before the court that heroin was trafficked to the UK on Momen's order.
On the source of the said goods, Momen told interrogators that those were collected from local sources. Without detailing, CID officials said a syndicate used to collect the illicit drug from outside and used to supply those to BD Foods.
The CID-led team started the probe following a home ministry directive after a National Board of Revenue (NBR) inquiry had found five Bangladeshi business firms' involvement in heroin smuggling to the UK.
NBR took up the inquiry last year as the UK customs in a message through the British mission in Mumbai, India accused BD Foods Ltd, Emdad Traders, Jamil International, MM Enterprise, and Green Heaven Enterprise of trafficking 75.5kg heroin to the UK.
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