From an ordinary grocery store to luxury buildings, cars, property in the country and abroad; seems like Mokhlesur Rahman Mukul from Kashiadanga of Rajshahi has found Aladdin’s lamp.
Mukul used to share a good relation with former mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, and Rajshahi-3 MP Md Asaduzzaman Asad who escaped the scene since August 5 of this year.
He has four houses in Rajshahi and Dhaka city and a hundred crores taka worth seven-storery residential building at Kashiadanga. He has two luxury cars and at least 40 bighas of land. Of these lands, 20 bighas are at the heart of silk city, worth about 200 crores. He has a huge-amount share at the cattle market of Rajshahi City Bypass.
Mukul extended his business abroad. He bought two residential hotels in Saudi Arabia- one in Makkah, the other in Madinah. When the information came out in media, he went undercover for three months.
After this he entered the contracting business. During the last three years, he managed to get at least Tk 400 crores worth contract from the city corporation with the help of Liton. He made the Bando-Gate city bypass road at a cost of tk 100 crores.
A Contractor named Rahat Ali said, “Mukul’s company will incur a loss of at least Tk 20 crore. To whiten his black money, he kept buying contract various organizations at high prices. He has a strong network across the country. Only from Rajshahi City Corporation, he got Tk 400 crores worth contract in the last three years.”
Mukul used to share a good relation with former city mayor Liton and former MP Asad.
Four months ago, he presented a car to Asad, to get the control of two sandbanks of Paba and Godagari at a low cost. However, Asad denies this allegation and claims and said he bought the car.
Mukul was the second name on the list of Rajshahi’s hundi traders and smugglers that was made by the Special Crime Wing of the Police Headquarter, on March 29, 2018.
He had a close relationship with one of India’s smugglers Enamul. Mukul is accused of embezzling Tk 500 crore from Enamul. That’s why Enamul’s people visited Rajshahi in search of Mukul. When the government of India led encroachments against the illegal cash, Enamul sent 1000 crores of taka to Mukul. As soon as the situation went in favor of Enamul, he wanted his money back, but Mukul sent him only a half of the money. With that capital, Mukul now is the owner of thousands of crores of taka.
In the name of Moon Enterprise, Mukul laundered a lot of money to various countries including India.
Seeking anonymity, a villager said, “Mukul had nothing. But in the blink of an eye, he is the owner of hundreds of crore taka.”
Though this reporter tried several times to reach Mukul for his statement on this matter, but failed to communicate as his phone was switched off and was not responding to messages.
(The report was published on print and online versions of The Bangladesh Pratidin on October 5 and rewritten in English by Afsar Munna)
