"We have received banking reports of some of the companies involved in smuggling heroin to the UK and hope to get those of others within a day or two," a member of the team told The Daily Star last night.

He said the team did not find any suspicious transaction in the reports scrutinised so far. "Those involved in the smuggling are hard nuts. They possibly do not transact money of such illegal trade through banking channels," he speculated.

Sources said an official representing Bangladesh Bank (BB) in the team is ill and a fully-fledged scrutiny of all banking information will start after he joins.

As part of the ongoing investigation into the smuggling, the BB asked all commercial banks on May 3 to report within a week all banking information of the 12 business houses on a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) request. The CID deemed the banking information vital for its investigation, BB and CID sources said.

The banks, however, failed to report within the stipulated time.

The eight sister concerns of BD Foods Ltd have the same address--9 DIT Avenue, Motijheel, Dhaka. They are Universal Trade International, Al Ajmir Trade International, King and Company, Camellia International, Oriental Export, Greenway Traders, Famous Business Internationals, and BD Sea Food.

The BD Food Corporation, another BD Foods concern, is located on Sagarika Road in Chittagong.

The remaining two business houses on the suspect-list are NHB Corporation at 28/G/1 Toynbee Circular Road in Motijheel, and Rainbow International at Al Baraka Tower, 252 New Elephant Road.

Meanwhile, sources said the probe team members are quizzing detained BD Foods Chairman Badruddoza Chowdhury Momen intensively, but he did not divulge any significant information yesterday.

Momen admitted to the investigators on Wednesday that he smuggled some contraband items outside the country.

MAINUDDIN REMANDED
Md Mainuddin, manager of King and Company, was shown arrested in the heroin smuggling case filed with the Sutrapur Police Station and taken on a three-day fresh remand.

The CID produced Mainuddin before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's court, Dhaka yesterday with a prayer for a seven-day remand.