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Staff Reporter

Arrested yaaba don Mahbubur Rahman Joinal, MD of Hotel Purbani and his mistress yaaba queen Zannatul Ferdous Akhi alias Nikita started to give important information about the dangerous drug to the Rapid Action Battalion.

At a press conference at the RAB-3 office at Tikatuli Col Sultan Ahmed Nurani said this to journalists, while describing details of their operation of arresting them.

He said RAB got few names of yaaba dealers and drug peddlers, but he did not disclose any further about them for the interest of investigation.

RAB is investigating whether Joinal has any diamond smuggling connection.

Earlier, RAB questioned Joinal and Nikita yesterday after their arrest from the court premises and got interesting information about their lavish life style.

Nikta is a daughter of an employee whose monthly income is only Tk 7,500 but she used to lead a very lavish life. She changed her skin by plastic surgery costing Tk 70 lakh and to maintain her skin she needs Tk 60,000 per month. She had two permanent servants to massage lotion on her skin. RAB said the dresses and shoes Joinal and Nikita used to wear were of most costly brands.

In a family trip to Cox's Bazar Tk two lakh of Joinal got wet while taking bath in the sea. Col Nurani said this gives an idea of their lavish life style.

Zannatul Ferdous Akhi alias Nikita is not the wife of Joinal. They were engaged to be married.

Nikita was wife of MP of Kushtia-3 Sohrab Uddin of BNP. They got married in 2004. But only after two months Nikita got introduced to a young expatriate from Korea over Internet and fell in love with him.

The young man sent Tk one lakh per month and loved Nikita very much. In 2006 Nikita divorced MP Sohrab and got engaged to the Korean expatriate, but on the day of the engagement Nikita met Joinal and was attracted by his wealth and power.

Nikita then established relationship with Joinal for which the Korean expatriate tried to commit suicide but survived after fighting the death for 127 days.

At a stage Nikita and Joinal decided to marry each other and in the engagement of their marriage Joinal gave an engagement ring worth Tk 15 lakh. After the engagement of Nikita and Joinal, sister of Nikita, Pushpita got married with industrialist MNH Bulu. Joinal bore all the expenses of the marriage of Pushpita. Joinal bought a Tk 15 lakh ring for Pushpita's engagement.

After Pushpita's marriage Bulu arranged a family trip to the Cox's Bazar chartering an aircraft of GMG airlines. But Nikita refused to go with all the family members, as she is the mistress of Purbani MD Joinal. On the next day Joinal and Nikita went to Cox's Bazar hiring the aircraft only for the two. In Cox's Bazar the family members stayed at normal rooms of Hotel Sea Gull but Joinal and Nikita stayed at the presidential suite of the hotel, the rent of which is Tk 27,000 per night.

Few days ago Nikita and Joinal went to Tokyo where they spent Tk 1.5 crore in their 11-day visit.

RAB-3 wing Commander Col Nurani said Joinal could not give salary to his employees in the hotel Purbani but lived such a lavish life. RAB would investigate the source of his illegal income and would detect other yaaba dealers with the help of the arrested two.

It may be mentioned that RAB-3 arrested Joinal and Nikita from the court premises on Sunday evening after a long operation.

Suspected yaba-baron Amin Huda and his associate Ahsanul Haque Hasan were again taken on a two-day remand each in two cases involving clandestine trade in the dangerous drug, as a hunt continued through the city.

After completing 8 days on remand given on October 27, police took them to the court of additional CMM Shawkat Ali Chowdhury Monday and prayed for a further 5-day remand each in the two cases filed against them with Gulshan police station under the Special Powers and Narcotics Acts.

Huda, nephew of business-tycoon Aziz Mohammad Bhai, and Ahsan were given to police remand by magistrate Mshawkat Ali Chowdhury at about 3:30pm after rejecting prayer for 10-day remand in both the cases.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a raid on the Gulshan residence of alleged Yaba dealer Shafiqul Islam Jewel early Monday seized huge Yaba tablets, phensidyl syrup, porno CDs and a luxurious car.

RAB sources said they arrested the notorious Yaba dealer, locally known as 'Yaba Jewel', on Sunday evening. Acting on his confessional statement, they raided the residences of Jewel and his sister at Niketan residential area at about 4am.