A Dhaka court today (October 20, 2022) extended bail of expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat until November 8 in a case filed for laundering around Tk 222 crore and channeling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.

Former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat, an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business in the capital, has been placed on a six-day remand in a case filed over amassing illegal wealth.

Samrat, the king of casinos in Bangladesh, is found to be quite innovative in working his way up the power ladder.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) sentences Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat to six months imprisonment for wildlife law violation and drunkenness respectively.