Ex-AL MP jailed for four years in Jashore

JASHORE, Jan 22 (UNB): A Jahsore court has sentenced former Awami League (AL) MP Shahin Chakladar to four years in jail in a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) around 16 years back.
Judge of Jashore Special and Session Judge Court SM Nurul Islam also fined him Tk 20, 000 and ordered to confiscate his properties worth about Tk 3.8 million.
The court issued a warrant for his arrest, said district unit of Awami League law affairs secretary Advocate Gazi Abdul Kadir who stood for the former lawmaker.
On March 30 in 2008, the then deputy director of the ACC (Jashore office) Manjur Morshed filed a case against Shahin Chakladar, current general secretary of the district unit of Awami League, on charge of concealing information of properties worth Tk 3.8 million.
The ACC found inconsistency between the tax file and submitted statement of properties. In the statement of properties, the former MP mentioned that he had properties worth about Tk 10 million, with a loan of about Tk 19 million.
But the ACC found the actual value of his properties was about Tk 5.6 million.