Why have they not been arrested yet. Khaleda Zia was arrested without a case. Tareq was arrested without any charge. Why the CTG and Daroan Moeen Uddin Ahmed are waiting? To have a deal with him? So many faces of corrupt CTG.
SH
Toronto
Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@q8.com> wrote:
Tofail, who recently became vocal in the party, was sued a day after the Awami League had officially rejected the government's offer for dialogue without the detained party president, Sheikh Hasina, and announced programmes such as a signature campaign for an immediate, unconditional release of Hasina, also a former prime minister, and countrywide organisational tour in June.
This is the latest instance of suing politicians perceived to be toeing the military-controlled interim government line in terms of changing the political order.
The expelled Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, BNP stalwarts M Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar and the Jamaat-e-Islami amir, Matiur Rahman Nizami, landed in jail in the past week after they had been implicated in the GATCO scam case filed against former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
Although they were not named as accused in the first information report of the case filed on September 18, 2007, the commission on May 13 implicated them in the case and pressed charges against them.
Another BNP stalwart, theDhaka mayor, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, also known to be a reformist, was sued by the commission in April for amassing illegal assets.
Tofail, after the case had been filed on Thursday, told reporters he was not surprised to see the graft case against him and he was ready to face any eventuality and continue to work for Sheikh Hasina.
'I am prepared to go to jail. I was in jail during the tenures of all the governments but of the Awami League. I am ready to face any odds,' he told reporters at his house at Banani in the afternoon after receiving the news that he was sued.
The commission's deputy director, Golam Shahriar Chowdhury, lodged the first information report of the case with the Ramna police on Thursday against Tofail under Section 26(2) and 27(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2004 and under Rule 15 of the Emergency Powers Rules 2007.
His wife Anwara Ahmed and daughter Taslima Ahmed Zaman were also accused in the case for reportedly helping Tofail to amass assets of Tk 2.44 crore and conceal information on assets of Tk 1.86 crore.
Tofail, according to the first information report, on December 5, 2007 submitted the statement of his wealth on Tk 1.27 crore to the commission, which he claimed was all he and his family owned.
The commission on November 15, 2007 directed Tofail to file the statement as he was named on the list of 35 corruption suspects, published by the commission on November 4, 2007.
Tofail owns assets of Tk 37.43 lakh beyond his known sources of income while his wife owns Tk 21.20 lakh beyond her known sources of income, claimed the first information report. He amassed ill-gotten assets of Tk 41,20,995 in the tax years of 1982–83 and 2002–03 as the income he showed in the period was only Tk 13,05,795, the report said.
Besides the assets, Tofail, with the assistance of his wife and daughter, had withdrawn Tk 1,86,09,002 from their accounts in the Gulshan branch of the Standard Chartered Bank in 10 months after the declaration of the state of emergency on January 11, 2007, said the first information report.
During the inquiry, the commission also found Tofail had concealed information on 38 decimals of land in Bhola and a bank account in the Sonargaon branch of the Social Investment Bank Limited that had a balance of Tk 1,420.89.
In the statement, Tofail said he used to live in a two-storey building, 'donated' to his daughter Taslima, in the Bhola municipal area, and its value was shown to be Tk 14,12,000.
Tofail showed the house inDhaka in his wife's name, which was allotted at Banani Block A, Road 5 on July 31, 1975, and Anwara reportedly paid Tk 77,332 in instalments for the plot. The house was later constructed and it cost Tk 62,28,176 as per the statement submitted to the commission.
But the complainant found that the building had actually cost Tk 63,12,431.17, and part of the amount used in construction was shown as private loan of Tk 30 lakh besides the House Building Finance Corporation loan of Tk 25,09,542.61.__._,_.___
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