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ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH

Ex-BNP MP Hafiz jailed for 13 yrs

ACC okays charge sheet against ex-m in ister Altaf Chy

Star Report
A special court yesterday sentenced detained former BNP lawmaker Hafiz Ibrahim to 13 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information on assets in the wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The court also sentenced Hafiz's wife Mafruza Sultana to three years' RI for aiding and abetting her husband in accumulating illegal wealth.
In addition, the ACC approved submission of charge sheets
against detained former home minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury yesterday for amassing wealth worth over Tk 1.53 crore illegally and concealing wealth information to the commission.
The same day, a Dhaka court issued arrest warrants against Foysal Morshed Khan, son of former foreign minister M Morshed Khan, and his wife in a graft case filed by the ACC.
CASE OF HAFIZ IBRAHIM
Judge Shamsunnahar Begum of Special Court-4 on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises delivered the verdict in the case in NEWS
presence of Hafiz.
The court also fined the BNP leader Tk 1 crore for the offences He will have to sen e one and a half year more in prison if he failed to pay the amount.
Meanwhile. Mafruza was also fined Tk 1 crore, in default of which, she would have to spend six months more in jail. As she is absconding and was tried in absentia. her sentence will come into effect from the day of her arrest or surrender.
The former BNP lawmaker, was handed down 10 years' RI for accumulating wealth illegally and three lyears' RI for concealing information about his actual wealth to the ACC. The sentences will run con-secutively since the day of his arrest in the case.
The court also ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate his illegally earned immoveable properties worth Tk 1.64 crore andTk 4.73 crore in Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDR) and savingsaccount.
It also ordered confiscation of his wife's immovable properties worth Tk 1.90 crore and Tk 7.88 crore in FDR and savings account.
Other properties to be confiscated include one jeep, one private car and three CNG-run autorickshaws and taxicabs.
ACC Assistant Director Mohammad Ibrahim filed the case with Gulshan Police Station on May 8 last year.
In their wealth statements submitted to the ACC. Hafiz mentioned his wealth worth Tk 6.80 crore and his wife's wealth worth Tk 9.50 crore.
CHARGE SHEET AGAINST ALTAF
Briefing newsmen at the ACC Office, commission director general (Admin) Col Hanif Iqbal said that Altaf Hossain concealed Tk 55.60 lakh in his wealth statement submitted to the commission.
He said that the anti-graft body investigation also found Altafs wealth worthTk 1.53 crore, which is beyond the BNP leader's known sources of income.
The anti-graft body yesterday
also approved submission of charge sheets against Nasrin Khan, wife of former foreign minister and BNP leader M Morshed Khan. Hedayetullah, son of former Awami League lawmaker AKM Rahmatullah and Kazi Kamaluddin Ahmed, deputy director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for accumulating wealth and prop erties illegally
Iqbal said the commission approved submission of charge sheet against Nasrin Khan for acquiring wealth worth Tk 1.67 crore beyond her known sources of income and concealing information about assets worth Tk 91.63 lakh.
Hedayetullah will be charge sheeted for concealing information of his assets worth Tk 12.72 lakh and acquiring wealth worth Tk 1.24 crore illegally, the ACC director general said.
Besides, the ACC also approved filing of a case against agriculturist Javed Iqbal for not submitting wealth statement to it within the stipulated time. Col Hanif Iqbal added.
ARREST WARRANTS AGAINST FOYSAL
Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque of the Senior Special Judge's Court issued the arrest warrants against Foysal Morshed and wife Shyma Shezan Khan in a case filed for amassing wealth illegally and concealing wealth information to the ACC.
The court fixed June 24 for next hearing of the case.
On June 16. ACC Assistant Director Mohammad Talebur Rahman, also the 10 of the case, submitted the charge sheet against the two to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, showing 34 people as prosecution witnesses.
The case was filed against them on December 10 last year with Gulshan Police Station.
According to the case statement, Foysal held back information about property worth Tk 6.94 crore and accumulated a Tk 7.10 crore wealth beyond his known sources of income. His wife was accused for aiding and abetting him in the offence.