Atiqullah jailed for seven
years on fraud charge
Courtesy New Age 18/5/08
The Globe-Janakantha Group chairman, Atiqullah Khan Masud, also editor and publisher of the daily Janakantha, was on Wednesday sentenced again to rigorous imprisonment for seven years on another fraudulence charge.
In the verdict, AK Roy, judge of the special judge’s court 2 set up on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, also sentenced Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha authorised officer ATM Quamruzzaman to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment.
The court also fined the two Tk 1.22 crore and ordered both Masud and Quamruzzaman to pay the fine jointly or to serve one more year in jail.
Masud, arrested by the joint forces on March 7, 2007 at the Janakantha building in
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s deputy assistant director Mahmud Hasan on September 30, 2007 filed the case with the Motijheel police accusing Masud and Quamruzzaman of having a role in approving the design of a 15-storey building on the DIT Road at Malibagh in 1999.
According to the prosecution, Masud applied for the approval for the construction of the building on April 19, 1999. Quamruzzaman prepared a fake design of the building on May 23, 1999. Showing the fake design approved by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, Masud took Tk 1,22,44,000 from 17 people to sell the flats to them.
With the latest sentence, Masud has so far been jailed for a total of 48 years in six cases.
On March 6, 9 and 20 and April 27, Masud was sentenced to imprisonment for a total of 28 years, seven years each in four cases on similar fraudulence charges.
He was also jailed on April 3 for 13 years for amassing illegal wealth and hiding assets in his wealth statement submitted to the commission.
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