| Redwan, wife charged with amassing Tk 3cr illegal wealth Courtesy Daily Star 9/7/08 The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday pressed charges against detained former BNP state minister Redwan Ahmed and his wife Momtaj Ahmed in a case filed in connection with illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 2.95 crore and concealing wealth information to the commission.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court allowed the ACC to interrogate detained former state minister for planning Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir at the jail gate in a corruption case.
CASE AGAINST REDWAN
ACC Deputy Director Shahin Ara Momtaj, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet of the case before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court showing 35 people as prosecution witnesses.
The IO prayed for issuance of arrest warrant against Momtaj Ahmed and the order to attach her properties as she has been absconding since the case was filed.
In the charge sheet, the IO said Redwan, now a leader of Liberal Democratic Party, amassed Tk 2,95,45,500 through illegal means and concealed information about Tk 4,05,24,511 in his wealth information submitted earlier to the ACC.
On December 19, the ACC filed the case against the couple with Ramna Police Station.
In the case statement, the complainant said Redwan illegally accumulated Tk 2.31 crore and did not show property worth Tk 1.37 crore in his wealth statement.
Redwan submitted the wealth statement through jail authorities on August 14 as the ACC on August 7 issued a notice asking him to do so.
The first information report (FIR) of the case states that Redwan showed the price of his plot in Uttara, a four-storey building on 7.21 decimals of land in the capital and a two-storied building at Monihar in Comilla, lower than they actually are.
His concealed property includes two cars in his wife's name, a car in his own name, four shops in Chandina, Comilla in the name of his wife, son, two daughters and a daughter-in-law, and a Rajuk plot in the capital in his wife's name, the FIR adds.
The FIR also says that Redwan gave false information about Tk 2.2 crore of wealth. He said his son Moyeen Ahmed gave him Tk 2 crore and he borrowed Tk 20 lakh from his son in 1990.
Investigations revealed that Moyeen was only 13 then and obtaining that much money from such a young boy is incredible, the FIR adds.
Momtaj was included in the case in connection with abetting her husband in accumulating and concealing the wealth.
CASE AGAINST ALAMGIR
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani allowed the ACC to interrogate Alamgir at the jail gate after the ACC submitted a petition in this regard before the court.
On April 29, the ACC filed the case against Alamgir with Mohammadpur Police Station in connection with appointing 17 people without qualification and experience to the post of statistician (investigation) at Bangladesh Statistics Bureau in 1998.
Alamgir was earlier sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for amassing wealth through illegal means and concealing wealth information to the ACC. | |
