Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members are searching for the associates of detained EARTH Foundation Chairman Khan Mohammad Khalid Hossain for more information about the hitherto untraced bank accounts of the organisation.Khalid was taken on a fresh five-day remand on Thursday. Following Khalid's confession to pocketing Tk 25 crore by fraud, the Rab has so far been able to trace only three bank accounts containing Tk 5 lakh. Major Mohammad Ehsanul Haque of Rab-2 told The Daily Star yesterday that Khalid informed the law enforcers that he has five associates including his wife who know about the other bank accounts.
Different institutions and people are also informing the Rab about Khalid, he added but refused to disclose their names in the interest of investigation. Khalid was arrested at Panthapath in the capital on November 18 on charges of swindling around Tk 100 crore. A businessman meanwhile filed two fraud cases with Dhanmondi Police Station against Khalid on Wednesday and Thursday.