Naser Rahman gets 13 years in jail for graft
Courtesy New Age 1/4/08
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Former finance minister M Saifur Rahman’s eldest son Naser Rahman was jailed for 13 years on Monday for amassing illegal wealth and hiding assets in his wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Khandaker Kamaluzzaman, judge of the special judge’s court 9 in the Jatiya Sangsad complex, ordered confiscation of Tk 1.8 crore worth of Naser’s wealth, which is disproportionate to his legitimate sources of income.
The court also fined Naser, also a former Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker, Tk five lakh and ordered him to serve one more year in jail in case of failure to pay the fine.
The court sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for amassing illegal wealth and three years for hiding assets in his wealth report and ordered consecutive execution of the sentences, meaning Naser would serve the sentences one after another.
The period of the jail terms will be counted from February 3, 2007, when Naser was arrested, the court said in the verdict.
ACC assistant director M Moniruzzaman filed the case with the Gulshan police on May 27, 2007 against Naser and his wife Rezina Begum.
Naser was also jailed for nine years by a Sylhet court on September 18, 2007 in an extortion case.
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