Police recover Tk 300,000 ‘extortion money’ from flat of ex-Students Against Discrimination leaderPolice have recovered nearly Tk 300,000 from the rented flat of Abdur Razzak bin Sulaiman Riyad, a dismissed student leader of the anti-discrimination movement, claiming it to be part of Tk 1 million allegedly extorted from the home of former MP Shammi Ahmed. The money was found Thursday morning in a room Riyad used in a shared apartment at Dhaka’s Badda, Gulshan police chief Hafizur Rahman said. Riyad, who was arrested on Saturday, had been living in one room of a three-bedroom flat shared with several others. The cheques, issued by a company called Trade Zone, include two for Tk 10 million each, and one each for Tk 1.5 million and Tk 1 million, he added. Police say they will show Tk 298,000 as recovered evidence and are now investigating a Southeast Bank account registered to Riyad.
