Haji Selim jailed for 13 years, wife for 3 years
Courtesy New Age 28/4/08
Former Awami League lawmaker Mohammad Selim (Haji Selim) was on Sunday sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 13 years for amassing illegal wealth and hiding assets in his wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
M Sirjaul Islam, the judge of the special judge’s court 7 set up on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, also sentenced Selim’s wife, Gulshan Ara, to rigorous imprisonment for three years for helping her husband to keep Selim’s assets of Tk 4.88 crore in her name. The court ordered confiscation of Selim’s wealth of Tk 26.92 crore, which the court found to be beyond his known sources of income.
The court also fined Selim Tk 10 lakh and the wife Tk 1 lakh. If they fail to pay the fines, Selim will need to serve one more year and Gulshan Ara six more months in jail.
Selim was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for amassing wealth of Tk 26.92 crore, which was disproportionate to his known sources of income, and three years for hiding assets of Tk 10.04 crore in his wealth report.
The couple recorded Tk 59.37 crore in their statements submitted to the commission.
In the verdict, the court ordered consecutive execution of Selim’s sentences, meaning Selim would need to serve 13 years in jail.
The couple are in hiding and the sentences will come into execution after their arrest or surrender. The commission’s assistant director Mohammad Mahbub Alam filed the case with the Lalbagh police on September 24, 2007.
Its deputy director M Abu Sayeed, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against the couple on April 1.
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