Police have recovered a check worth Tk 2.25 crore from the house of Abdur Razzak bin Sulaiman alias Riyad, a senior organizer of the Dhaka Metropolitan Students' Movement and a member of the Central Sports Cell, who was arrested in an extortion case.

Deputy Police Commissioner Muhammad Talebur Rahman, Media and Public Relations Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, confirmed this information on Wednesday.

Talebur Rahman said that four checks worth a total of Tk 2.25 crore were recovered from the house of Riyad, who was arrested in an extortion case.

Police said that a raid was conducted on the Nakhalpara residence of anti-discrimination movement leader Abdur Razzak bin Sulaiman Riyad on Monday night. Cheques worth Tk 2.25 crore were recovered in the raid. FDR documents worth about Tk 2 million were also recovered.

Recently, five young men went to the house of former MP Shammi Ahmed from the reserved women's seat and demanded a ransom of Tk 50 lakh by posing as coordinators. Since the former MP was absconding, this ransom was demanded from her husband. A few days ago, they went to that house and brought Tk 10 lakh. Then they went to that house again to bring gold ornaments. At that time, the people of the house informed the police, and five people, including Riyad, who were posing as coordinators, were arrested and brought to the police station. In this incident, Shammi Ahmed's husband Siddiq Abu Zafar filed a case with Gulshan Police Station, accusing six people of extortion. The police sought a 10-day remand of the accused in the case. After the hearing, Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Ziadur Rahman granted them a seven-day remand.