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Saturday, May 17, 2008

[ALOCHONA] Re: Shahjahan Omar jailed for 13 years, wife for 3 years

Dear Alochoks

Can someone please tell me which party Shahjahan Omar belongs to?

Thanks

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait


--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Ezajur Rahman" <ezajur.rahman@...>
wrote:
>
> Shahjahan Omar jailed for 13 years, wife for 3 years
> Courtesy New Age 18/5/08
>
>
>
> Former state minister for law Shahjahan Omar was on Wednesday
sentenced
> to rigorous imprisonment for 13 years and his wife, Mehzabin
Farzana,
> for three years for amassing illegal wealth and hiding information
on
> assets in the wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption
> Commission.
>
>
>
> In the verdict, Khandaker Kamaluzzaman, judge of the special judge's
> court 9 set up on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, ordered confiscation
of
> their assets of Tk 2.06 crore, which was found disproportionate to
their
> known sources of income.
>
>
>
> The court also fined Shahjahan Tk 10 lakh and Mehzabin Tk 5 lakh. If
> they fail to pay the fines, Shahjahan will need to serve one more
year
> and Mehzabin six more months in jail.
> The sentences will come into execution after the surrender or
arrest of
> the couple as they are in hiding. The court, however, acquitted
their
> son, Adnan Omar, of the charge. Like his mother, Adnan was charged
with
> abetting his father in committing the offences by keeping a car
worth Tk
> 13 lakh in his name.
>
>
>
> Shahjahan was jailed for 10 years for amassing illegal wealth of Tk
2.06
> crore beyond his known sources of income and for three years for
hiding
> the same amount in the wealth statement submitted to the commission.
>
>
>
> The court ordered consecutive execution of the sentences, meaning
Omar
> will need to serve both the sentences of a total of 13 years in
jail.
> The commission's assistant director Sheikh Mesbah Uddin filed the
case
> with the Gulshan police on September 27, 2007.
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