The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM), Dhaka yesterday placed Gani on a fresh remand of four days after Sub-inspector Abdul Baten Mian, investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced the forest boss before it and sought a seven-day remand in a case filed with Uttara Police Station for illegally possessing four passports.

Arrested on May 29, the forest boss was earlier taken on remand for 12 days under the Emergency Power Rules and for possessing four passports illegally.

In the forwarding statement the IO mentioned that Osman Gani was taken on a three-day remand in the case earlier, but he did not divulge comprehensive information about the illegal possession of passports.

The IO also said Gani needs to be taken into fresh remand to find out about his involvement in corruption and whether he possesses more illegal passports.

Joint forces so far recovered 289 tolas of gold ornaments from his locker at a bank and from his Uttara residence they seized Tk 6.95 lakh in cash, savings certificates worth over Tk 5 lakh and ownership documents of flats and plots.

Meanwhile, the same court granted a seven-day fresh remand against Ali Kabir Haider, conservator of forests for Dhaka division, after Jatrabari police produced the arrestee before the court and placed a seven-day remand prayer in a case filed under the Emergency Power Rules.

The police produced him before the court upon completion of his five-day remand in the same case and requested for a fresh remand to gather information about his ill-gotten money.

Haider was arrested on June 24 as the joint forces started cracking down on corrupt forest officials who accumulated huge wealth through destroying the country's forests.