Mir Nasir jailed for 13 years, son 3 years
Thursday, 5 July 2007
A Dhaka court Wednesday sentenced former state minister for civil aviation and tourism and BNP leader Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin to 13 years in jail for amassing wealth by illegal means, report agencies.
The BNP leader's son Mir Mohammad Helaluddin was sentenced to three years in prison, as he was found guilty of abetting his father in raking in illegal wealth.
Judge Amar Kumar Roy of the Special Judge's Court-2, set up at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, also fined Mir Nasir Tk 5.0 million (50 lakh). He will have to serve another two years in jail in failure to pay the fine.
His son has to pay Tk 0.1 million (1 lakh) in fine or serve one more month in jail in failure to pay the fine.
As the court pronounced the judgment, both of them, standing in the dock, looked pale.
Nasir was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally and to three years simple imprisonment for concealing facts about the actual volume of assets he made. "The two jail terms will run consecutively," said the court verdict.
Mir Helal was convicted of aiding and abetting his politician-father in protecting their ill-gotten property.
The court also ordered confiscation of the wealth they amassed illegally.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on February 18 published a list of 50 politicians, businessmen, bureaucrats and other graft suspects including Mir Nasir and asked them to submit their wealth statements by a 72-hour deadline.
On February 22, Mir Nasir, already detained, submitted an account of his wealth through his representative, putting his property at more than Tk 225 million (22.50 crore).
ACC Deputy Director Sharmeen Ferdousi filed a case with Gulshan Police Station against Mir Nasir and his son on March 6. She charged them with suppressing having another Tk 240 million (24 crore) worth of undeclared wealth.
Ferdousi accused the father and the son of making the fortune illegally.
On April 29, the ACC investigation officer Abdullah Al Zahid submitted the charges against the two with the court of metropolitan judge Jagannath Das Khokon.
He said the accused did not give complete details of their ill-gotten wealth in the statement to the ACC.
The case was transferred to the Special Judge's Court-2 housed in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on May 6 for hearing and the court designed to try corruption cases framed charges on May 15.
As many as 32 witnesses testified before the court until June 18.
M Nazrul Islam and Borhanuddin appeared for Nasir and Helal, while the ACC Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam stood for the state.
The BNP leader's son Mir Mohammad Helaluddin was sentenced to three years in prison, as he was found guilty of abetting his father in raking in illegal wealth.
Judge Amar Kumar Roy of the Special Judge's Court-2, set up at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, also fined Mir Nasir Tk 5.0 million (50 lakh). He will have to serve another two years in jail in failure to pay the fine.
His son has to pay Tk 0.1 million (1 lakh) in fine or serve one more month in jail in failure to pay the fine.
As the court pronounced the judgment, both of them, standing in the dock, looked pale.
Nasir was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally and to three years simple imprisonment for concealing facts about the actual volume of assets he made. "The two jail terms will run consecutively," said the court verdict.
Mir Helal was convicted of aiding and abetting his politician-father in protecting their ill-gotten property.
The court also ordered confiscation of the wealth they amassed illegally.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on February 18 published a list of 50 politicians, businessmen, bureaucrats and other graft suspects including Mir Nasir and asked them to submit their wealth statements by a 72-hour deadline.
On February 22, Mir Nasir, already detained, submitted an account of his wealth through his representative, putting his property at more than Tk 225 million (22.50 crore).
ACC Deputy Director Sharmeen Ferdousi filed a case with Gulshan Police Station against Mir Nasir and his son on March 6. She charged them with suppressing having another Tk 240 million (24 crore) worth of undeclared wealth.
Ferdousi accused the father and the son of making the fortune illegally.
On April 29, the ACC investigation officer Abdullah Al Zahid submitted the charges against the two with the court of metropolitan judge Jagannath Das Khokon.
He said the accused did not give complete details of their ill-gotten wealth in the statement to the ACC.
The case was transferred to the Special Judge's Court-2 housed in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on May 6 for hearing and the court designed to try corruption cases framed charges on May 15.
As many as 32 witnesses testified before the court until June 18.
M Nazrul Islam and Borhanuddin appeared for Nasir and Helal, while the ACC Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam stood for the state.