[ALOCHONA] ACC: Jamat MP and Foreign Minister's son sentenced

Jamaat MP jailed for 10 years
Faisal Morshed for 7 years
Courtesy New Age 14/4/08

 

Former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Shahjahan Chowdhury was on Sunday sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information on his assets in the wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
AK Roy, the judge of the special judge’s court 2 set up on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, also sentenced former foreign minister M Morshed Khan’s son Faisal Morshed Khan to rigorous imprisonment for seven years in the same case.
The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each and ordered them to serve three more months in jail in case of failure to pay the fines.
The court also ordered confiscation of the Land Rover Range Rover, bought by the Jamaat leader on tax-free quota, as Shahjahan failed to prove any legal source of Tk 50 lakh spent on buying the vehicle.
The Jamaat leader was in the dock when the verdict was delivered. The sentence of Faisal, who is now in hiding, will come into effect after his arrest or surrender.
Shahjahan was jailed for seven years for amassing illegal wealth beyond his known sources of income and for three years for hiding information on his wealth.
The court ordered concurrent execution of the sentences, meaning the Jamaat leader would need to serve a maximum of seven years in prison.
The commission’s deputy director Abul Kalam Azad, posted to its Chittagong office, filed the case with the Chittagong Port police on July 1, 2007 accusing the Jamaat leader of owning the vehicle worth Tk 50 lakh beyond his known sources of income and hiding information on the vehicle in the wealth statement he submitted to the commission.
In the charge sheet, the commission’s assistant director Jahangir Alam, also the investigation officer of the case, pressed charges against the Pacific Motors managing director, Faisal Morshed Khan, also the AB Bank chairman, for abetting the Jamaat leader in amassing the illegal money.
Although the Jamaat leader claimed he had borrowed Tk 20 lakh from his brother to buying the tax-free jeep, the prosecution told the court that the Tk 50 lakh was paid from Faisal’s account with the City Bank.
Charges were framed against the two on November 4, 2007 in the Chittagong divisional special judge’s court, but the case was transferred to the special judge’s court 2 of Dhaka on February 12 for trial.
The Jamaat leader surrendered on November 29, 2007. He faces five more cases — three on extortion charges and one on murder charge.

 

 

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