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Four NSU trustees sent to jail

Staff Correspondent | banglanews24.com
Update: 2022-05-23 17:32:46
Four NSU trustees sent to jail

A Dhaka court ordered authorities to send four trustees of North South University (NSU) to jail in a graft case involving embezzlement of funds and money laundering.

The trustees are MA Kashem, Benajir Ahmed, Rehana Rahman and Mohammed Shajahan. 

Judge KM Imrul Kayes of Senior Special Judges’ Court on Monday (May 23) isssued the order as ACC Deputy Director Farid Ahmed Patwary produced them in the case.

The court ordered ACC investigation officer to interrogate four NSU trustees at the gate of the prison.

Standing for ACC, Farid Ahmed Patwary, also Investigation Officer in the case, argued that NSU trustees are directly involved in embezzlement of university fund and money laundering and they need to be grilled. The court accepted the plea.

As defence counsels prayed to the court to grant first class division to the accused in jail considering their social status, the court asked the jail authorities to take necessary step as per the Jail Code.

Advocates Mosharraf Hossain Kajol, Mir Ahmed Ali Salam and Mahmud Hossain Selim appeared for the ACC while Advocate Shahinur Islam for the accused. 

On May 5, the ACC filed the case against NSU trustee board Chairman Azim Uddin Ahmed, four members Benajir Ahmed, MA Kashem, Rehana Rahman and Mohammed Shajahan, and Ashaloy Housing and Developers Ltd Managing Director Amin Md Hilaly for embezzling Tk 303.82 crore of the university.

The accused misappropriated the money in the name of purchasing 9,096.88 decimals of land in Rupganj of Narayanganj district in connivance with one another. 
Earlier, the ACC conducted investigation into the graft allegation against the NSU trustees following a complaint filed by Dr Sufi Sagar Sams, Adviser of the Protection for Legal and Human Rights Foundation.

Out of the six accused, the four NSU trustees moved to the HC with a plea for anticipatory bail in connection with the case.

Police on Sunday arrested four NSU trustees after the High Court rejected their bail petitions in the case.

Rejecting anticipatory bail petitions, the HC asked police to arrest the accused petitioners and produce them before the lower court within 24 hours. Soon after the court order, police came and arrested the four NSU trustees in the courtroom. 

A HC division bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo in its order rejected the bail pleas of the accused.

The HC made its stand clear that there is no scope to show compassion to the persons involved in fund embezzlement and money laundering which are prejudicial to the whole country.

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