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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