Dhaka, Feb. 23 -- Papia and her husband Sumon Chowdhury alias Moti Sumon have made the fortunes through "trading in drugs and arms, extortion, recruitment fraud and other sorts of embezzlement", according to the Rapid Action Battalion.

The elite police unit said it also found a foreign pistol, 20 rounds of bullet, five bottles of liquor, around Tk 6 million, five passports and some foreign currencies during the raids on their apartments in Dhaka and Narsingdi on Sunday.

Citing information gathered until then, RAB-1 commander Shafee Ullah Bulbul told a news conference in Dhaka that the couple embezzled Tk 1.1 million by promising candidates jobs as police sub-inspector and in Bangladesh Railway.

The couple, based in Narsingdi, also embe...