Falu sued for dodging Tk 2.75cr income tax

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The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday filed a case against detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddak Ali Falu for dodging Tk 2.75 crore income tax between 1996 and 2006.

Deputy Tax Commissioner of NBR Nurul Amin filed the case against the former lawmaker with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court.

NBR showed Falu’s tax evasion upon his income of Tk 11,21,65,517 for the years 1996 to 2006.

After hearing the case yesterday, Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque recorded the statement of the complainant, took it into cognisance, and directed the jail authorities to produce Falu before the court on June 2.

In his order, the judge said he passed the order as the charges brought against him under the Income Tax Ordinance 1984 were found to be true.

In his complaint, Nurul Amin mentioned that Falu had evaded paying a total of Tk 2,75,65,221 in income tax.

Falu repeatedly gave false information to the income tax department about his real income and expenditure, the complainant said.

Falu, political secretary to former prime minister Khaleda Zia, also owner of private satellite television channels ntv and Rtv, and a daily newspaper Amar Desh, was arrested from his Dhaka Cantonment residence on February 6 last year.

The army-led joint forces seized government relief materials from Falu’s factory in Savar on February 9.

Ashulia police filed a case against Falu and several other unnamed officials and employees of the factory.

Falu also faces a number of other cases in connection with graft, trials of several of which already started.

His wife Mahbuba Sultana was also convicted earlier in absentia for tax evasion.

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