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Former senior secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Shah Kamal has been arrested.
The Detective Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) picked him up from Mohakhali in the capital on Saturday night.
In an SMS sent on Saturday, DMP Media and Public Relations Department said the arrest came a day after the police recovered 30.1 million Bangladeshi taka and foreign currencies worth 1 million taka during a raid at Shah Kamal's residence on Babar Road in Mohammadpur on Friday.
Shah Kamal was the secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief from March 2015 to June 2020. There were allegations against him of receiving money illegally from different sources.