[🇧🇩] The fate of big guns/beneficiaries of Awami League after the student revolution

[Saif]

Bhai this guy looks exactly like the ISKCON director Swami in Santa Monica in my neighborhood. What are the odds ?

On a more serious note, many thousands of crores were embezzled by Hasina and team in the energy sector, rife with corruption. Probably the largest sector for embezzlements.

Get this guy on remand and he'll be singing like a canary.

Not only this guy, the energy minister Nasrul Hamid also embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars when he was in power. He should also be arrested and put into jail.

 

[Saif]

ACC investigates four ex-MPS, minister

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday decided to launch inquiries into allegations against former state minister for primary and mass education Zakir Hossain of amassing wealth by giving approvals to 26 schools in his district Kurgram illegally...

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ACC investigates four ex-MPS, minister
Staff Correspondent 12 September, 2024, 00:45

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday decided to launch inquiries into allegations against former state minister for primary and mass education Zakir Hossain of amassing wealth by giving approvals to 26 schools in his district Kurgram illegally.

The graft watchdog initiated the move against Zakir and also three former lawmakers of the now deposed Awami League government over allegations of amassing illegal wealth.

The three former lawmakers are Mohammad Habib Hasan (Dhaka-18), Md Nurul Islam Talukder (Bogura-3), and Mohammad Abdul Wadud (Chapainawabganj-3).

The commission took the decisions to run the inquiries following information of irregularities and corruption against them, said its director general for administration Md Shahriag.

According to the allegations, former state minister Zakir Hossain, also a former lawmaker of Kurigram-4 constituency, made a huge amount of illegal wealth, including his movable and immovable assets worth Tk 5.18 crore.

A major allegation against constitutes that he brought 26 schools under the child welfare trust in Kurigram illegally through abuse of his power as state minister for primary and mass education.

Anti-corruption commission’s intelligence unit in its primary probe found information of his illegal wealth in home and abroad, said officials.

Former lawmaker of Dhaka-18 Habib Hasan and his family members amassed massive illegal wealth at home and abroad, according to the allegations.

The commission in its investigation found that Habib purchased a house in his son Abir Hasan Tanim’s name at so-called Begum Para in Canada the value of which is worth 15.50 lakh Canadian dollars.

According to the allegations, former lawmaker of Bogura-3, Md Nurul Islam Talukder, embezzled money from different government projects and amassed a illegal wealth at home and abroad.

Mohammad Abdul Wadud, a former lawmaker of Chapainawabganj-3, and his family members amassed illegal wealth at home and abroad through corruption, irregularities, and abuse of power, said anti-corruption officials.

Since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, the anti-corruption commission has initiated inquiries against around 100 former ministers, state ministers, and lawmakers over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption.​

 

[Bilal9]

Not only this guy, the energy minister Nasrul Hamid also embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars when he was in power. He should also be arrested and put into jail.

Nasrul Hamid's (Bipu's family) was totally involved in this looting worth hundreds of Millions, including his younger brother.

They were owners of the Priyoprangan Condo complex, one of Dhaka's earliest residential high rises above twenty stories twenty years ago.

They were already rich, how much wealth and looting do you need to do?

All this greed, for what?

You can't take any of it with you when you are gone...

I think Bangladeshis living overseas should identify these looters and turn them in to the authorities.

 

[Bilal9]

She is 78 not 88

Right you are.

Though, I suspect she will start looking more like 88 soon the way cases are being stacked against her.

 

[Saif]

I think Bangladeshis living overseas should identify these looters and turn them in to the authorities.

I totally agree with you Their lives should be turned into living hell until they returned the money.

 

[Saif]

Complaint lodged against Hasan Mahmud, Nowfel among 119 in Ctg

A complaint was lodged with a Chattogram court today accusing former ministers Hasan Mahmud and Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel and 117 other Awami League men over attacking students during mass protest in the port city on August 4

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Complaint lodged against Hasan Mahmud, Nowfel among 119 in Ctg

Hasan Mahmud, left, and Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel

A complaint was lodged with a Chattogram court today accusing former ministers Hasan Mahmud and Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel and 117 other Awami League men over attacking students during mass protest in the port city on August 4.

Md Farhad, who was injured in a shooting during the student movement, lodged the complaint with the court of Chattogram's Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sarkar Hasan Shahriar.

Taking the complaint into cognizance, the court ordered Chandgaon Police Station's Officer-in-Charge (OC) to treat it as an FIR after investigation, said Plaintiff's lawyer advocate Ashraf Hossain.

City unit AL general secretary AJM Nasir Uddin and former lawmaker Abdus Salam are among the accused.

According to the compliant, Farhad took part in the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Bahaddarhat area on August 4. The accused, in collaboration with each other, formed unlawful gatherings, equipped with lethal weapons.

They fired and exploded crude bombs, targeting the student protesters, he said.

The complainant was hit with a bullet during the incident and later he was rushed to Chattogram International Medical College Hospital, added the statement.​

 

[Saif]

Tax scrutiny: NBR seeks bank account info of Aziz, Taposh

The National Board of Revenue has asked for bank details of five individuals, including ex-Army chief General (retd) Aziz Ahmed and former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, for scrutiny of their tax compliance.

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Tax scrutiny: NBR seeks bank account info of Aziz, Taposh

Aziz Ahmed (Left) and Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. File photo

The National Board of Revenue has asked for bank details of five individuals, including ex-Army chief General (retd) Aziz Ahmed and former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, for scrutiny of their tax compliance.

The three others are journalist couple Farzana Rupa and Shakil Ahmed, and former Election Commission secretary Helaluddin Ahmed.

NBR's Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) wrote to all banks and financial institutions, seeking bank account details of the five, confirmed a top official of the CIC yesterday.

Their income tax files will be examined to ensure whether they paid their taxes properly.

According to sources, the CIC will investigate their assets through field inspections.

"We have sent letters to all banks and financial institutions asking for all kinds of transaction information, including credit cards and deposits," said an official, seeking anonymity.

"After scrutinising the details, we can say whether they are involved in any money laundering and tax-evasion offences or not."

Meanwhile, the NBR has asked Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) to submit the details of the investment of SK Sur Chowdhury, former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, in the stock market.

Journalist couple Farzana and Shakil have been arrested on other charges.

Earlier, the CIC also wrote to banks, nonbank financial institutions, BSEC, and the Department of National Savings, requesting bank account information of five business tycoons -- Salman F Rahman, vice-chairman of Beximco, Nazrul Islam Mazumder, chairman of Nassa Group, Mohammed Aziz Khan, chairman of Summit Group, Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, chairman of Bashundhara Group, and Mohammad Obaidul Karim, chairman of Orion Group.

Besides, Tax Zone-15 of the NBR sought financial information from 91 banks and financial institutions to provide details of Chattogram-based business conglomerate S Alam's family members and their affiliated enterprises, and Awami League leader Sheikh Selim and his family.

The NBR has intensified its move after the ouster of the AL government on August 5 following a mass uprising.​

 

[Saif]

Ex-IGPs Benazir, Shahidul sued for killing BNP activist in ‘crossfire’

A case was lodged on Thursday with a court in Chapainawabganj against five people including former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque and Benazir Ahmed for killing an...

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Ex-IGPs Benazir, Shahidul sued for killing BNP activist in ‘crossfire’
Staff Correspondent . Rajshahi 12 September, 2024, 23:40

Benazir Ahmed and AKM Shahidul Hoque.

A case was lodged on Thursday with a court in Chapainawabganj against five people including former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque and Benazir Ahmed for killing an activist of the then main opposition political party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in an incident of ‘crossfire’ in 2018.

Julekha Begum, wife of deceased BNP activist Abul Hossain, filed the case.

Former Chapainawabganj Rapid Action Battalion camp officer Mozammel Haque, and RAB’s two sources, Monirul Islam Tulu and Md Morsalin, were also named as accused persons in the case.

Accused Shahidul served as the inspector general of Bangladesh Police and Benazir was the director general of RAB when Abul Hossain was killed allegedly in a ‘crossfire’ incident on September 5, 2018.

Additional chief judicial magistrate Abu Taleb of the Chapainawabganj court fixed September 18 for passing further order in the case filed by Julekha, the plaintiff’s lawyer Nurul Islam said.

Julekha, in her case statement, alleged that a group of members of RAB and Police forcibly picked up her husband Abul Hossain from Rohanpur bus stand area under Gomostapur upazila on September 5, 2018, when her husband was returning home from a court in Chapainawabganj.

On the following day, Abul’s bullet-hit body was found at Gomostapur Upazila Health Complex.

Julekha alleged that the members of RAB and Police abducted and killed her husband in the name of ‘crossfire’.

‘My husband’s only crime was that he was involved in BNP politics’, she alleged and said that the members of the RAB and the Police then forcibly took her signatures on a blank paper and ordered her to bury her husband’s body as soon as possible.

Julekha alleged that she tried several times to file a case over the killing of her husband, but the accused persons did not allow her to do so.​