DHAKA: Investigation Agency found evidence of five charges of wartime crimes against former Jatiya Party lawmaker Abdul Jabbar committed during the country's 1971 War of Liberation.

The probe team will submit the final report to the prosecution of International Crimes Tribunal Tuesday. Then prosecution submitted farmal charge against him with the tribunal.

Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, chief of the ICT investigation agency made the disclosure at a press briefing at its Dhanmondi office (Safe Home) on Monday morning.

Sanaul Haque, a senior co-ordinator of the agency, and investigation officer Helal Uddin also attended the briefing.

Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan said the five charges include murder, genocide, loot and arson, forced conversion of religion.

46 people were made witness against the 82-year-old Jatiya Party leader. 

The investigators have completed their nearly one-year-long investigation on the role of Jabbar during the country’s war of independence on Sunday.

According to the investigation agency, Jabbar and his men killed as many as 11 Hindus and injured many others at village Nandigram on May 22, 1971. He forcefully converted 200 Hindus to Islam in a day in the last week of May, 1971.

BDST: 1438 HRS, APR 28, 2014