Graft cases filed against ex-Jamaat MP Taher for embezzling public funds
Sunday, 1 July 2007
COMILLA, June 30 (UNB): Two more cases have been filed against former Jamaat MP Abdullah Mohammd Taher, now in jail, his brother and 39 others on charges of misappropriating public funds allocated against various projects.
One of the cases was filed by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mir Khairul Alam and the other by upazila Project Implementation Officer (PIO) Awlad Hossain with Chouddagram police station Friday night.
In both the cases, the plaintiffs named Taher as the prime accused and his brother Ikramul Haq Harun the number two accused.
The first case was filed at about 9.35pm by the UNO against 12 persons, including the former MP and his brother, for allegedly misappropriating Tk 40,000 in the name of Mia Bazar Islami Pathagar and four metric tonnes of rice worth about Tk 94,000 in the name of Gunobati Samaj Kalyan Parishad.
The PIO filed his case at about 9.45pm against 29 suspects, including Taher and his brother, on charges of misappropriating cash and rice valued at Tk 175,000 in the name of various clubs and organisations, including Kashinagar Zia Parishad, Kunja Shreepur Islamic Pathaghar and Noabazar Youngsters Club.
Meanwhile, the Chouddagram police sent the cases to the anti-corruption office Saturday morning.
The former Jamaat MP has now been implicated in half a dozen criminal cases, including extortion and corruption, since he was arrested on March 7 by the army-led joint forces from his Adabar residence in the capital amid a crackdown on politicians suspected of corruption.
One of the cases was filed by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mir Khairul Alam and the other by upazila Project Implementation Officer (PIO) Awlad Hossain with Chouddagram police station Friday night.
In both the cases, the plaintiffs named Taher as the prime accused and his brother Ikramul Haq Harun the number two accused.
The first case was filed at about 9.35pm by the UNO against 12 persons, including the former MP and his brother, for allegedly misappropriating Tk 40,000 in the name of Mia Bazar Islami Pathagar and four metric tonnes of rice worth about Tk 94,000 in the name of Gunobati Samaj Kalyan Parishad.
The PIO filed his case at about 9.45pm against 29 suspects, including Taher and his brother, on charges of misappropriating cash and rice valued at Tk 175,000 in the name of various clubs and organisations, including Kashinagar Zia Parishad, Kunja Shreepur Islamic Pathaghar and Noabazar Youngsters Club.
Meanwhile, the Chouddagram police sent the cases to the anti-corruption office Saturday morning.
The former Jamaat MP has now been implicated in half a dozen criminal cases, including extortion and corruption, since he was arrested on March 7 by the army-led joint forces from his Adabar residence in the capital amid a crackdown on politicians suspected of corruption.