M.A. Qader-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Bangladesh
Dhaka, 13 May (Asiantribune.com): Two separate courts on Tuesday sent BNP’s two former lawmakers M Rashiduzzaman Millat and Nadim Mostafa to jail. Both of them were convicted in graft cases filed during the regime of the immediate past army-backed emergency government.
Judge Firoz Alam of Special Court-1 sent Millat to jail as he appeared before the court and sought bail in a corruption case against him.
On the other hand, Judge Lutfa Begum of Additional Sessions Judge's Court in Rajshahi sent Nadim to jail after he appeared before the court yesterday afternoon.
On January 29, last year, the special court sentenced Millat to eight years' imprisonment on charges of amassing illegal wealth beyond known sources of income and giving false wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Millat was also fined Tk 10 lakh or one more year imprisonment in default.
On November 28, 2007, Judge Mohammad Ashraf Hossain of the Fifth Special Court sentenced Millat to six years' imprisonment for evading taxes amounting Tk 1 crore by concealing information and also filing false information about his wealth in tax returns submitted to the National Board of Revenue (NBR).
The court also fined Millat Tk 22 lakh, or in lieu to serve an additional one year and three months in jail.
On August 14, 2007, the second court of Additional Sessions Judge Rejaul Islam in Rajshahi sentenced Nadim and 14 others to 10 years rigorous imprisonment in two separate cases of extortion and criminal activities during union parishad (UP) election, 2003 in Durgapur upazila.
All the 15 convicted were also fined Tk 13,000 each, in default they would have to suffer 18 months more in jail.
The same court on July 4, 2007 sentenced Nadim Mostafa and his three associates to five years' imprisonment for swindling Tk 1 lakh from a Puthia upazila villager promising to give his son a job.
The court also fined them Tk 7,000 each and in default another four months' imprisonment.
Earlier, on May 6 a Dhaka court former state minister cum BNP leader Barrister Shahjahan Omara and Jatiya Party (JP-Manju) Chairman Anwar Hossain Manju to jail in separate graft cases.
-Asian Tribune-
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