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Shajahan Siraj gets 13 years for illegal wealth

Staff Correspondent
A special court yesterday sentenced BNP leader and former minister Shajahan Siraj to 13 years' imprisonment for amassing assets illegally and concealing wealth information from Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
It also fined him Tk 10 lakh. In the event of a default in payment, he will have to serve another year in jail.
His wife Rabeya Siraj was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined Tk 5 lakh for aiding and abetting him in the offence. For failing to pay the sum she will have to be in jail for six more months.
The couple, who have been in hiding since the present military-backed caretaker government launched the anti-graft drive last year, were tried in absentia.
Handing down the verdict, Judge Kamaluzzaman of Special Court-9 also ordered the government to confiscate wealth worth around Tk 3.75 crore, which is disproportionate to their known sources of income.
Of the jail terms Shajahan copped, 10 years' rigorous imprisonment was given for earning illegal income and three years' simple imprisonment for holding back information in the wealth statement to the ACC.
Shajahan, former jute and textile minister, will have to serve out his terms consecutively meaning he will have to be in jail for 13 years.
The court, set up in the MP Hostel in Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban complex, said the sentences would take effect from the date of their arrest or surrender.
ACC Assistant Director Khairul Huda filed the case against Shahid. Hasan's assistant Badal and two servants Istema Khatun Minu and Parvin - were sentenced to death on September 2, 2003 by a lower court as they were found guilty of raping and murdering Shazneen and abetting in the act.
After the High Court upheld their death sentences in 2006, the five condemned perpetrators of the crime appealed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) later that year.
The final verdict of the case now awaits hearing before the Appellate Division of the SC.
Her family has arranged a milad mahfil after Asr prayers at 5:15pm today at her father’s residence at House NE(J)4, Road-83, Gulshan-2, Dhaka.
Shazneen’s father Transcom Group Chairman Latifur Rahman and her mother Shahnaz Rahman request relatives, friends and well-wishers to attend the milad mahfil.