Archive for November 13th, 2007
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Customs officials and members of the task force working at Zia International Airport (ZIA) seized 23.5kg heroin from the luggage of two China-bound Bangladeshi citizens yesterday.They also arrested the two in connection with drug trafficking.Customs officials suspect the arrestees--Ariful Islam Bhuiyan of Shantinagar and Mahmud Ali of Agamosi Lane of Kotwali in the capital--are members of an international drug smuggling syndicate.At a press briefing, the airport customs officials said primary chemical tests using sophisticated kits imported from the US suggest that the drug is processed heroin and its estimated street value is Tk 23.5 crore.This is the largest ever ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007The elected representatives to the local government bodies will have to make public their wealth statement upon entering office, recommends a high-powered committee on local government.Formed on June 3 by the caretaker government, the seven-member committee headed by former secretary Dr AMM Shawkat Ali will submit its report to Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed today with a set of recommendations on how to strengthen the local government institutions and ensure good governance at the grassroots level.The existing laws lack a provision requiring the representatives to publish their wealth statements. They only state that those elected to local government units ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007A charge sheet was submitted yesterday against former whip Ashraf Hossain, former prime minister Khaleda Zia's political secretary Harris Chowdhury, Orion Group Chairman Obaidul Karim and two others in a case relating to bribery for getting Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover construction work.Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Assistant Director Shafiul Alam submitted the charge sheet against Ashraf, Harris, Karim, Harris's brother-in-law Masud Ahmed and his driver Abdus Salam.Shafiul Alam said he has also applied for issuance of arrest warrants and order to attach their property.In the charge sheet, it was mentioned that an Infiniti car was imported in the name of Ashraf Hossain under duty-free ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007A close relative of a detained former lawmaker had supplied 15 grenades to Huji boss Mufti Abdul Hannan before the August 21 blasts at an Awami League (AL) rally in 2004.A source said Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (Huji) operations commander Hannan and other detained operatives of the banned Islamist outfit have told the interrogators that the grenades had been handed over at a house in the city's Mohammadpur area.However, the source did not disclose the names of the supplier and the former lawmaker for the sake of a fair investigation.Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) which is preparing to submit charge ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Freedom fighters, political leaders and members of civic groups at home and abroad yesterday fiercely criticised Law Adviser Mainul Hosein's comment on trial of war criminals saying that the adviser is trying to brush aside the issue by terming it 'old matter' when there is a consensus on their punishment.Senior Awami League (AL) leader Suranjit Sengupta said Mainul Hosein himself couldn't avoid the responsibility for not holding trial of the war criminals in the past as he was also among the lawmakers who voted for the 1973 constitutional amendment granting general amnesty for the people against the liberation of Bangladesh.On ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to file a case against BNP leader and Rajshahi City Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu for accumulating huge wealth by 'illegal' means and concealing it in his wealth statement.The anti-graft body has also decided to file two cases against Dr Firoz Mahmood Iqbal, assignment officer of ex-premier Khaleda Zia, and his wife for 'illegally' gathering huge wealth and 'misuse' of government vehicles.The commission has also picked up 50 cases to revive from of the list of 1,500 selected old cases filed by now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption (Bac).The ACC decisions were revealed by its Director General ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Law enforcers have arrested five people including a model and a fashion designer with Yaba tablets, heroin and ice pills in the capital.The arrestees are TV model Payel, 27, fashion designer Irin Rahman Poly, 30, Jahanara Kabir Rubi, 35, Rashida Akhter Ruza alias Jahanara, 27, and Masud Parvez, 28.Two separate teams of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) raided Pacific Super Centre at Kakrail and Hometec Mahbub Tower on Shantinagar Bazar road from 8:00pm to 12:00 midnight Sunday and seized 40 Yaba tablets, six grams of heroin, 12 ice pills, five mobile phone sets and Tk 67,300 from them. ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 13th, 2007A Dhaka court yesterday sent Mohammad Nayeem Mehtab Chowdhury, self-declared managing director of WorldTel Bangladesh Limited (WTBL), to jail on expiry of his remand in a money swindling case.Meantime, Nikita alias Zannatul Ferdousi, her father Abdur Noor, mother Saleha Khatun and brother Mohammad Moinuddin were sent to jail in connection with a case filed for possessing Yaba pills.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani sent Nayeem to jail after Motijheel police produced him before the court on completion of his five-day remand.In his forwarding report, Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Sub-inspector Abdul Alam of Rab-1 mentioned that the information derived ...
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