Destiny 2000, Destination and the cheated millions of Bangladeshi people - II

by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 28, 2011

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Fraudulent multi level marketing [MLM] racket Destiny 2000 Limited and its enterprises are playing with the dignity and esteem of Bangladesh Armed Forces, as it has placed former chief of Bangladesh Army, Lt. General Harun Ar Rashid at the forefront of the nefarious mass-cheating projects by paying this ex-army chief handsome amount of money "kickback" in the name of "honorarium". Either being befooled or being allured in greed, Lt. General Harun, who is one of the important leaders of the 'Sector Commanders Forum' is continuing to affiliate with Destiny 2000 Limited, thus not only putting his personal esteem into total bankruptcy but also putting the very image of Bangladesh Armed Forces into huge risk.

Destiny 2000 Limited's mastermind and kingpin of the entire racket, Muhammad Rafiqul Amin is already considering himself to be untouchable by the existing rule of law of the country, as he openly proclaims to have "heavily compensated some of the top policymakers in the government" as well as "having direct connection with the Prime Minister". No one can really verify if what Rafiqul Amin continues to say are true or false, but it is evidently seen that the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh Bank, Anti Corruption Commission and other law enforcing and intelligence agencies in the country are surprisingly maintaining total silence over this serious issue of mass fraud by the Destiny 2000 Limited. For the sake of national interest as well as salvaging the 4.8 million innocent investors, who paid their last savings in various fake projects of Destiny 2000 Limited, the government and the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in particular should initiate immediately investigation into the affairs of Destiny 2000 Limited, freeze their bank accounts and stop Rafiqul Amin and his gang members from fleeing Bangladesh by looting at least TK. 75,000 crore [US$ 1 billion] from the locals. It is understood that by the end of 2012, Destiny 2000 Limited and all of its fake projects will blow in the air, thus leaving 4.8 million people being completely cheated.

In the previous installment of this serialized article, I have given specific evidence of how this fraudulent MLM company is running fake and illegal 'financial institution' named Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited [DMCSL] as well as fraudulent tree plantation project, thus cashing billions of Taka through completely illegal manner. Destiny Tree Plantation Limited is one of the most fraudulent enterprises of the dubious MLM Company Destiny 2000 Limited. Former chief of Bangladesh Army Lt. Gen. M. Harun-Ar Rashid is the chairman of this fraudulent Destiny Tree Plantation Limited, which claims to be "engaged in the plantation of trees on commercial basis all over the country. Till date the company has planted over 94 Lac [9.4 million] trees on 6293 acres. The target is to raise the plantation number to 6 crore [60 million] by 2012."

It is learnt that Destiny Tree Plantation Limited offered alluring "packages" to its members and the people, where the company claims to possess 60,000 acres of land in Bangladesh. Meanwhile, Destiny Tree Plantation Limited has already collected more than Tk. 65 thousand crore from the people by selling "packages" of the Destiny Tree Plantation Limited, though Destiny 2000 Limited or Destiny Tree Plantation Limited do not possess even a fraction of the claimed land in the country. According to a number of sources inside Destiny 2000 Limited and Destiny Tree Plantation Limited, the company has already sold more than 120 million "tree packages" to the people, by giving false and fabricated information. In some cases, fake pictures of tree plantation were taken from Chittagong Hill Tract and Sundarban mangrove forest areas, to befool the prospective buyers of the "Tree Package".

"Muhammed Rafiqul Amin knows that the 'Tree Package' is a total fraud and he is continuing this trap to collect millions and billions of Taka from the innocent people. General Harun [the ex chief of army] will be ultimately made a scapegoat in this huge financial scam, when the Destiny 2000 Limited and Destiny Tree Plantation Limited will bust by end 2012", said a Destiny source.

"Muhammed Rafiqul Amin is using General Harun, by taking full advantage of huge greed of this ex army chief. But, by the end of 2012, when Muhammed Rafiqul Amin and most of the directors of Destiny 2000 Limited and other enterprises of the MLM fraud racket will flee Bangladesh, General Harun will be the man in real trouble", the source added.

It is believed by many that by continuing as one of the policymakers of the extremely fraudulent MLM racket, General Harun is not only putting his own integrity into serious doubts, he also is greatly tarnishing the excellent image of Bangladesh Armed Forces, as a large segment of the people are putting their money on projects of Destiny 2000 Limited seeing General M. Harun-Ar Rashid at the top most position in Destiny Tree Plantation Limited, as well as a few retired army officers in various positions in the fraudulent MLM Company.

It may be mentioned here that, Destiny 2000 Limited's mastermind Muhammed Rafiqul Amin is a Canadian citizen, while a large number of directors of the board of the fraudulent MLM Company have already obtained immigration status in various countries such as Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and Australia.

Here are some of the other fraudulent projects of Destiny 2000 Limited:

Fake Airline Company:

Best Air is one of the many fake projects of Destiny 2000 racket. When Bollywood cine star Shahrukh Khan visited Bangladesh to attend the hugely organized cultural evening, Destiny's sister concern Boishakhi Television bought the broadcast right of this event and while the event was continuing, advertisement of BEST AIR was televised repeatedly, to give an impression to public that, this was a genuine airline company. But in reality, Best Air is nothing but a fake company only with an office at Dhaka's Badda area. According to Civil Aviation Authorities in Bangladesh, there is no move from the promoters of Best Air in importing any aircraft in near future, though Destiny's kingpin Muhammed Rafiqul Amin and his gang are openly publicizing that the commercial flights of Best Air will begin from December 28, 2011. It is learnt from inside sources in Best Air that, Muhammed Rafiqul Amin has already sold 'share package' of this fake airline company to the agents of the company as well as citizen thus collecting at least TK. 1200 crore. Destiny is also planning to sell shares of Boishakhi Television to its agents with the target of collecting at least TK. 2000 crores. It is cautioned by the financial experts that, people buying shares of this television channel may not ever get any profit or dividend in near future.

Boishakhi Television:

It is learnt that, every month satellite transponder rental amounting to US$ 35 thousand is being sent by Destiny 2000 Limited to continue the Boishakhi Television through illegal hawala channel. Foreign Exchange Regulations Department of Bangladesh Bank has confirmed that, no permission was ever taken from it for transferring such huge amount of foreign currency every month, which clearly is a gross violation of the existing law of the land. Owners of Destiny 2000 Limited are already liable of money laundering crime for illegal transfer of such foreign currency every month. Anti Corruption Commission and Bangladesh Bank are reluctant in taking any action against Destiny 2000 Limited or Boishakhi Television for such illegal transfer of foreign currency for reason unknown.

It is also learnt from the sources in National Board of Revenue [NBR] that the Boishakhi Television is supposed to pay 15 per cent of the total amount of advertisement revenue it collects from the advertisers. It said, on an average, Boishakhi Television airs advertisement worth TK. 15-20 lakh, while the amount of accrued Value Added Tax [VAT] is around TK. 225,000~300,000 thus making the amount of VAT payable by Boishakhi Television to TK. 8.21~10.95 crore. Actual amount of VAT paid by Boishakhi TV is much less. Boishakhi Television, which commenced broadcast in 2002, has also evaded VAT of a large amount of money, which also now falls into liability of Destiny 2000 Limited, as it currently owns the share of this project.

Government needs to immediately initiate investigations into the gross irregularities and massive fraud inside Destiny 2000 Limited and its sister concerns. Weekly Blitz has already brought this issue of massive irregularities and fraud to the attention of Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh Bank and Anti Corruption Commission.

To be continued ...

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