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Monday, April 14, 2008

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

Dear Alochoks

I thought the CTG was protecting the Islamist parties according to
our political supporters.

Guess they got it wrong....again.

Regards,

Emanur Rahman, UK

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Ezajur Rahman" <ezajur.rahman@...>
wrote:
>
> 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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