Police will interrogate former adviser Justice Fazlul Haque, his son Dr Afzal Hossain Raj and several others regarding their alleged payment of Tk 24 lakh to three arrested frauds for relieving the former adviser of corruption charges.
Earlier on Wednesday, the three impostors — Amalendu Das, dismissed VAT inspector Golam Ambia and dismissed police constable Mohammad Nuruzzaman alias Iqbal — were arrested by an intelligence agency. They were handed over to Detective Branch on Thursday.
On Friday, Towfiq Alam, an official of two NGOs run by the Haque family, filed a case with Dhanmondi Police Station alleging that he, on behalf of the Haque family, had paid Tk 29 lakh out of the agreed amount of Tk 30 lakh to the arrestees in exchange for getting Haque out of all cases filed against him.
Justice Haque, a former adviser to the previous caretaker government, and his son Dr Raj own the two NGOs — Foundation for Research and Study and Spectrum Consultancy.
Dhanmondi police yesterday produced the arrestees to a Dhaka court with seven days’ remand prayer for each. Upon hearing both sides, Metropolitan Magistrate Ismail Hossain granted three days’ remand for each.
“I’ll have to interrogate Justice Fazlul Haque and his son for a complete investigation of the case,” said investigation officer of the case Sub-Inspector Amirul Islam of Dhanmondi Police Station.
The three arrestees admitted of receiving Tk 24 lakh from Huque’s son Dr Raj through their employee Towfiq. The deal was mediated by Towfiq’s friend Abdul Gaffar Titu, the arrestees claimed.
They told the police that on October 28 last year Towfiq first gave them Tk 4 lakh during their meeting at a fast food store inside Metro Shopping Mall at Dhanmondi and the remainder of the payment was made on different dates at the NGOs.
It is alleged that while Haque was in charge of forest, land and law ministries, he took Tk 1.25 crore in bribe — Tk 80 lakh from two forest officials and Tk 45 lakh from Bashundhara Group.
One of the forest officials bribed him for a transfer order to a better location and the other paid him for stopping his transfer.
The Bashundhara Group bribed the then adviser for his help in leasing 84 acres of government land.
On April 13 this year, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against Justice Haque on charges of amassing illegal wealth and concealing information from the ACC.
According to first information report (FIR) of the ACC case, Haque in his wealth statement to the ACC held back information about moveable and immovable properties worth around Tk 97.37 lakh and his accumulated assets did not match with his known sources of income.
Categories: Bangla, Bangladesh, Bangladesh News
August 31st, 2008 at 6:20 am
“Police will interrogate former adviser Justice Fazlul Haque, his son Dr Afzal Hossain Raj and several others regarding their alleged payment of Tk 24 lakh to three arrested frauds for relieving the former adviser of corruption charges.”
“They were handed over to Detective Branch on Thursday.”
Waoooo! This dramatic Police actions are great! I suppose this Detective Branch even sounds greater!
My request to these Detective Branches, investigate Bangladesh corrupted police forces who often take bribe and bring them to justice for their crime.