Aniruddha Kumar Roy, Managing Director of RMM Group, is a well-known figure in Dhaka’s diplomatic and business circles. On the surface, he appears to be a successful figure in international trade. However, an investigation reveals a dark dual life hidden behind this successful persona, involving shadows of an international intelligence network and a series of personal and corporate scams. Below is a special investigative report on the dark chapter behind his carefully constructed empire.
The most explosive finding of the investigation reveals Aniruddha Roy’s secret geopolitical activities. According to several reliable intelligence sources, he operates covertly to maintain a regional network as an agent for India’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). His primary responsibility was to collect sensitive and crucial information on Bangladesh’s policymaking circles, high-ranking bureaucrats, and diplomatic and trade matters, and subsequently pass it to the Indian intelligence agency. Under the guise of international trade, he built unrestricted access to Bangladesh’s center of power, aiming to implement the neighboring country’s security strategies in Bangladesh.
Although Roy earned Commercially Important Person (CIP) status multiple times in Bangladesh, the investigation shows he cleverly concealed his Indian citizenship documents. Allegations indicate he regularly used an Indian passport to launder massive amounts of funds and assets out of Bangladesh. Whenever legal complications arose in the banking or tax sectors, he used his secret foreign citizenship and international protections as a shield. Exploiting legal loopholes in both countries, he evaded state revenue while expanding his commercial network.
Roy’s transgressions extend beyond state security and tax evasion into his personal life, where evidence points to severe moral failure and domestic fraud. Concealing information about his first wife, he deceptively entered into a second marriage. Investigations show this was a calculated move to seize the vast wealth and assets of his second wife’s family. Leveraging family ties, he plotted to misappropriate land and money from his in-laws, causing extreme mental and financial distress to the victim’s family once exposed.
In the local business community, Roy is widely viewed as a notorious scammer. He faces specific allegations of withholding profit shares from joint venture partners, forging banking documents, and failing to settle dues totaling tens of millions of taka owed to leather and garment suppliers. Business partners from that period claim his mysterious 79-day disappearance from Gulshan in 2017 was not an abduction, but a staged drama designed to escape mounting pressure from creditors and cover up major financial irregularities.
Though Roy is the MD of RMM Group, he holds CIP status internationally and is listed on official lists as a representative of ‘FB Footwear.’ Intelligence and related sources reveal that former Chief Justice S.K. Sinha held a massive secret investment in FB Footwear, with Roy acting as a front managing Sinha’s financial interests. Additionally, Roy was a business partner of S. Alam and former Awami League MP Rahmatullah.
In 2017, an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and law enforcement uncovered a major financial scam at Farmers Bank (now Padma Bank). Using forged documents, the bank’s Gulshan branch issued a fake loan of BDT 4 crore to two businesspeople and subsequently deposited it directly into Justice Sinha’s personal bank account via pay orders. Investigations proved Roy and his close circle were the key facilitators behind executing the fake loan and routing the money to Sinha. Furthermore, during an appeal involving ‘Ashian City,’ a suspicious transaction of nearly BDT 50 crore surfaced, where Roy served as the primary coordinator between Ashian City authorities and the Chief Justice, leaving clear evidence of direct involvement in both banking channels and cash deliveries.
Roy and Justice Sinha’s personal assistant, Ranjit Roy, functioned as active members of the same syndicate. They illegally occupied a luxury high-rise building in Uttara and transferred its power of attorney to Ranjit’s wife, Shranti Roy. When illicit banking documents and secret transactions involving Roy began leaking, Ranjit fled to Singapore with his family to avoid arrest.
Call Detail Records (CDR) analyzed by intelligence agencies following Roy’s disappearance in August 2017 revealed he remained in direct phone and covert contact with Justice Sinha right up to the moment he vanished. Subsequently, the ACC and the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) seized documents related to suspicious transactions made by the Sinha-Aniruddha network across Farmers Bank and Union Bank, initiating formal legal proceedings.
Note: Multiple attempts were made to contact Aniruddha Roy via mobile phone for comments on these matters, but he could not be reached.
