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Saif · Jul 27, 2025

ACC sues Bobby, ex-Air chief Hannan, wife for illegal wealth

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed two separate cases against former Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan and his wife Tahmida Begum on charges of amassing Tk 5.20 crore illegally...

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ACC sues Bobby, ex-Air chief Hannan, wife for illegal wealth
Ex-KAU VC Shahidur prosecuted

Staff Correspondent 27 July, 2025, 22:17

Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby | UNB photo

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed two separate cases against former Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan and his wife Tahmida Begum on charges of amassing Tk 5.20 crore illegally.

The anti-graft agency also filed a case against Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, son of Sheikh Rehana, on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 2.89 crore.

Radwan Mujib is also nephew of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina who fled to India after the ouster of her authoritarian government in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024.

ACC deputy assistant director Abdullah Al Mamun filed the case against Radwan Mujib with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, said ACC deputy director Aktarul Islam.

The commission on the day also filed a case against 17 people, including former Khulna Agricultural University vice-chancellor Md Shahidur Rahman Khan, who is currently a professor at Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh, on charges of forgery, fraud and abuse of power in recruitment process.

ACC deputy director Tanzir Hasib Sarker filed the two cases with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, accusing Hannan and Tahmida, said ACC director general (prevention) Akhtar Hossain.

Hannan has been sued on charges of amassing wealth worth Tk 3.28 crore beyond known sources of income and suspicious transactions of Tk 27.63 crore in his six bank accounts.

Tahmida has been prosecuted on charges of amassing assets worth Tk 1.91 crore beyond known sources of income and suspicious transactions of Tk 1.18 crore in her 32 bank accounts.

Hannan had taken charge as the 16th Chief of the Air Staff of the country on June 12, 2021. He served in this position until June 11, 2024.

According to the case statement, Radwan Mujib allegedly accumulated and possessed illegal assets worth Tk 2.89 crore, which include immovable properties worth Tk 39.83 lakh and movable assets worth Tk 2.49 crore.

Apart from the assets, he owns a flat in Dhaka’s Niketan area valued at Tk 1.73 crore, received as a donation from his uncle, Tarique Ahmed Siddiq.

The anti-graft agency also found suspicious transactions of Tk 12.48 crore in his three bank accounts despite allegedly having no legitimate business activities.

Earlier, Radwan Mujib and 15 others were sued by the ACC on charges of acquiring a 10-katha plot in Dhaka’s Purbachal area through irregularities.

On Sunday, ACC deputy director Sumitra Sen filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1 against the former Khulna Agricultural University vice-chancellor and 16 others.

The 16 other accused are former KAU registrar Khandaker Mazharul Anwar, section officer Md Jasim Uddin, accounts officer Murad Billah, office assistant cum computer typist Anisur Rahman Rintu, administrative officer Sultan Mahmud, administrative officer Khayrul Basar Riaz, computer operator Md Masud Rana, computer operator Shahreen Islam Mim, lab technician Rina Khatun, office assistant cum computer typist ABM Ariful Islam Turan, office assistant cum computer typist, Md Shahidul Islam, lab attendant Md Asif Ahmed, lab attendant Didarul Alam, lab attendant Md Habibur Rahman, office support staff Md Wahiduzzaman and Asiya Khatun.

According to the case statement, Shahidur and Mazharul in collusion with each other manipulated recruitment examinations by making ineligible candidates passed and appointed the other 15 accused in the case to different posts at Khulna Agricultural University, depriving qualified applicants.

The incident of manipulation allegedly took place at the university between July 21, 2019 and July 31, 2022.

Saif · Jul 30, 2025

Ex-CJ Khairul on 7-day remand

An additional chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Wednesday allowed the police to take former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in custody for seven days for interrogation in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system...

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CARETAKER GOVT VERDICT
Ex-CJ Khairul on 7-day remand
Staff Correspondent 30 July, 2025, 12:20

Former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque.

An additional chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Wednesday allowed the police to take former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in custody for seven days for interrogation in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

The court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate Md Sanaullah passed the order responding to a police plea seeking the court’s permission to take the former chief justice in custody for interrogation for the sake of a proper investigation.

Shahbagh police station inspector Khalek Miah, the investigating officer of the case, made the plea after producing the former chief justice before the court.

A pro-Jamaat Supreme Court lawyer, Md Muzahidul Islam, filed the case on August 18, 2024, only 13 days after the ouster of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.

The case accused the former chief justice of delivering an ‘unlawful verdict’ and preparing a ‘forged judgment’ while serving as a judge.

The complaint accused Khairul of corruptly and maliciously changing the caretaker government verdict after retirement.

Khairul was arrested by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at his Dhanmondi house in Dhaka on July 24.

The police, hours after his arrest, produced him before a metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka, showing him arrested in a case filed for the killing of Abdul Quiyyum in the capital’s Kajla area on July 18, 2024 during the anti-quota movement. The court sent him to jail.

Khairul is named in four cases in which he is facing charges of murder, sedition, fraud, and judicial misconduct, particularly related to altering the verdict that declared the caretaker government system illegal in 2011.

Khairul is also the first former chief justice to have been arrested.

Khairul was appointed chief Justice on September 27, 2010 and he took office on September 30 that year, superseding two Appellate Division judges.

He retired on May 17, 2011, and was appointed as Law Commission chair on July 23, 2013 violating his own verdict that retired judges would be disqualified for holding offices of profit after their retirement.

He remained in that post until resigning on August 13, 2024, after multiple reappointments.

Saif · Jul 31, 2025

Charges framed against Hasina, family

Two Dhaka Special Judges Courts on Thursday framed charges against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and their children, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha...

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PURBACHAL PLOT SCAM
Charges framed against Hasina, family
Staff Correspondent 31 July, 2025, 15:35

Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana | Collected photo

Two Dhaka Special Judges Courts on Thursday framed charges against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and their children, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha land plots at the Purbachal New Town project.

Judge Md Abdullah Al Mamun of Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 framed charges against the accused in three cases. One of these cases was lodged against 12 accused, including Sheikh Hasina, another against 17 accused, including Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and the other against 18 accused, including Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul.

The court issued arrest warrants for the accused as they remain fugitive while it also fixed August 11 to start recording testimony of witnesses in the three cases, said ACC public prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam.

Besides, judge Md. Robiul Alam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 framed charges in the other three cases filed against Hasina and others. In one of these cases, there are 17 accused, including Sheikh Rehana, her daughter Tulip Siddiq, and Sheikh Hasina. In another case, the 18 accused include Azmina Siddiq, Tulip, and Hasina, while the other case against another 18 accused includes Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, Tulip, and Hasina among the accused.

The court also issued arrest warrants for the accused in these three cases as they are absconding and fixed August 13 to start recording deposition of prosecution witnesses in the cases.

On March 10, the ACC approved charge sheets against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in the six cases.

According to the charge sheets, Sheikh Hasina and her family members received the allotment of six plots in the planned Purbachal town through abusing power, violating rules, and concealing information.

The names of former state minister and Awami league lawmaker Sharif Ahmed and Hasina’s former personal secretary Salahuddin were also mentioned as accused in the cases.

The names of the two men were not included in the first information report in the cases with the Anti-Corruption Commission, with officials saying that their names came as their involvement was found during probes.

The other accused named in the charge sheets are the housing and public works ministry’s former secretary Mohammad Shahid Ullah Khandakar, additional secretary (administration) Kazi Wachi Uddin, additional secretary Md Waliullah, administrative officer Mohammad Saiful Islam Sarker, and senior assistant secretary Purbhi Goldar, Rajuk’s former chair Mohammad Anisur Rahman Miah, former member (estate and land) Mohammad Khurshed Alam, member (administration and finance) Kabir Al Asad, member (development control) Tanmoy Das, member (estate and land) Mohammad Nurul Islam, former member (planning) Mohammad Nasir Uddin, retired member Major (Engineer) Samsuddin Ahmad Chowdhury, former member (development control) Shofiul Haque, director (estate and land-2) Sheikh Shahinul Islam, director Kamrul Islam, deputy directors Mohammad Hafizur Rahman and Habibur Rahman, former deputy director Nayeb Ali Sharif, assistant directors Faria Sultana and Mazharul Islam.

According to the charge sheets, Hasina, in collusion with top officials of Rajuk and the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, facilitated the allocation of the six plots — each of 10 kathas — in her and family members’ names through irregularities and corruption and abusing power during her tenure as prime minister.

Earlier, in January, the ACC filed the six cases with its Dhaka-1 integrated district office against Hasina, Rehana and their five children over irregularities in the allotment of six plots in Purbachal.

According to the documents of the cases, these six plots are situated on Road 203 in the diplomatic zone of Sector 27 of the Purbachal New Town project.

Rajuk issued an allotment letter on August 3, 2022, issuing a 10-katha plot to Sheikh Hasina (plot number 009), while it allotted two plots to Sajeeb Wazed (plot number 015) and Saima Wazed (plot number 017).

Sajeeb’s allotment letter was issued on October 24, 2022 while Sayma’s allotment letter was issued on November 2 the same year.

A 10-katha plot (plot number 013) was also allotted to Sheikh Rehana. The same-sized plots were also allotted to her son Radwan (plot number 011) and daughter Azmina (plot number 019).

The name of Rehana’s daughter Tulip Siddiq, also a British lawmaker, was included in the case on the allegation that she influenced allotment of plots.

Saif · Aug 1, 2025

DU syndicate recommends cancelling ex-IGP Benazir’s DBA degree

Dhaka University syndicate has recommended cancelling the Doctor of Business Administration degree awarded to former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed by the business studies faculty after finding that he had obtained the degree without meeting the minimum eligibility criteria.

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DU syndicate recommends cancelling ex-IGP Benazir’s DBA degree
DU Correspondent 01 August, 2025, 21:42

Benazir Ahmed | File photo

Dhaka University syndicate has recommended cancelling the Doctor of Business Administration degree awarded to former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed by the business studies faculty after finding that he had obtained the degree without meeting the minimum eligibility criteria.

The recommendation was made at a syndicate meeting on July 20, where DU vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan presented a fact-finding report, which revealed Benazir gained admission and completed the degree despite being ineligible.

Accepting the report, the syndicate suspended Benazir’s degree and decided to form a five-member investigation committee led by the DU pro-vice-chancellor, academic, Professor Mamun Ahmed.

Benazir Ahmed has been using the title ‘Doctor’ before his name since receiving the DBA degree from Dhaka University in 2019.

Questions were raised regarding Benazir Ahmed’s doctorate degree at the annual session of the senate held at Dhaka University on June 24, 2024.

At the time, senate members, including ABM Obaidul Islam and Ranjit Kumar Saha criticised the decision to allow Benazir Ahmed to enroll and obtain a degree under Dhaka University’s DBA programme.

According to the fact-finding report, irregularities were found in Benazir’s admission form.

The report stated that Benazir provided false information in the form and gained an undue advantage through misrepresentation.

It further noted that, as per the university’s DBA regulations, applicants must secure at least 50 per cent marks at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Benazir failed to meet this mandatory requirement.

Speaking to New Age, DU proctor Saifuddin Ahmed said on Friday that based on the findings of the fact-finding committee's report, the syndicate has recommended cancellation of the degree.

‘The decision will be executed through the upcoming meeting of the academic council,’ he said.

He added that Benazir wasn’t the only one involved, and an investigation has been launched to identify others connected to the issue.

Saif · Aug 14, 2025

ACC to sue Sajeeb Wazed for amassing illegal wealth

ACC is filing a case against Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed (Joy) on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth nearly Tk 600 million and money laundering.

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ACC to sue Sajeeb Wazed for amassing illegal wealth
Staff Correspondent
Published: 14 Aug 2025, 18: 35

Sajeeb Wazed JoyFile photo

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is filing a case against Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed (Joy) on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth nearly Tk 600 million and money laundering.

Sajeeb Wazed was the adviser to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Information and Communication Technology.

On Thursday, ACC Director General Md Akhter Hossain disclosed this information at the commission’s head office in Segunbagicha, Dhaka.

According to the ACC investigation, Sajeeb Wazed possesses immovable assets worth Tk 543,920,978 and movable assets worth Tk 67,884,891. Including expenditures, his total assets amount to Tk 611,805,869. In contrast, his acceptable income was found to be only Tk 13,208,542. This leaves Tk 601,473,970 as unexplained wealth.

The allegation states that, during his tenure, Sajeeb Wazed used his position and acquired these assets through dishonest means. By using hundi or other channels for money laundering, he spent Tk 540,432,258 on purchasing two houses and making investments in the United States. In addition, the ACC found suspicious transactions totaling Tk 575,054,315, including transactions worth Tk 34,622,057 through two bank accounts in his own name.