Bashundhara MD’s wife, family members leave Bangladesh on chartered flight

The wife of Bashundhara Group Managing Director (MD) Sayem Sobhan Anvir and four other members of his family left the country on a chartered flight on Thursday night.

Confirming the matter to Dhaka Tribune, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, said a special flight carrying them left for Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai at 8:55pm.

Mafidur Rahman, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), said they were allowed to leave after showing a clearance certificate obtained from the Special Branch of police, as a travel ban had been imposed on one of their family members.

Sayem Sobhan Anvir’s wife Sabrina Sobhan, their two children, Bashundhara Group Vice-Chairman Safwan Sobhan Tasvir’s wife Yeasha Sobhan, their daughter, and three domestic workers were the ones onboard, according to a top immigration official.

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Two younger brothers of the Bashundhara group MD, Safwan Sobhan Tasvir and Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir, were scheduled to fly out at 1:40am on Friday, a top security official of the airport told Dhaka Tribune.

Sayem Sobhan Anvir did not get permission to leave the country due to a travel ban imposed on him, an immigration official said.

On Tuesday, Deputy Commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Gulshan Division said police had information that Sayem Sobhan was still in Bangladesh.

Case against Bashundhara MD for abetting suicide

Police recovered the body of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia, 21, from a flat in Gulshan 1 on Monday evening. Police say she committed suicide.

A second-year higher secondary student at Mirpur Cantonment Public School and College, Munia had been living in the flat, which Sayem had rented for her, since March.

Munia and Sayem had allegedly been in a secret relationship for the last two years.

Her sister Nusrat Jahan filed the case with Gulshan police station, several hours after finding her dead, accusing Sayem of abetting her suicide.

Sayem is the son of Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, chairman of Bashundhara Group, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Bangladesh.