Dhaka, Feb. 24 -- Their two associates Sabbir Khandaker and Sheikh Tayeba Noor were also handed five-day remand in one of the cases on Monday.

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested the four and seized passports and counterfeit notes found on them at Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday night.

In drives on Papia's homes in Dhaka and Narsingdi on Sunday early morning, the RAB found huge wealth without a known source besides a pistol and five bottles of foreign liquor.

The couple have made the fortunes through "trading in drugs and arms, extortion, recruitment fraud and other sorts of embezzlement", according to the RAB.

The couple run a gang styled "Q and C" in Narsingdi for extortion, drugs business and maintain control, the RAB s...