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Acquisition of assets that do not generate income
Shamima Nur Papia, expelled general secretary of the Juba Mahila League from Narsingdi district, and her husband Mofizur Rahman were brought to ACC headquarters on Monday afternoon for pre-trial interrogation in a case of acquisition of unknown assets. Photo: Focus Bangla
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Shamima Nur Papia, expelled general secretary of the Juba Mahila League from Narsingdi district, and her husband Mofizur Rahman were brought to ACC headquarters on Monday afternoon for pre-trial interrogation in a case of acquisition of unknown assets. Photo: Focus Bangla
Narsingdi District Juba Mahila League Secretary General Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman have been placed on remand in a case brought by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for allegedly acquiring unknown assets. They were taken from the Kashimpur jail in Gazipur to the ACC headquarters in the capital’s Segundo Bagicha on Monday afternoon for a three-day pre-trial detention.
After that, the investigation team of the investigation officer of the case and deputy director of the ACC, Shahin Ara Mumtaz, began to question them.
Previously, on August 4, the ACC filed a case against Papia and her husband for acquiring assets worth Tk 8 crore 24 lakh 17 thousand.
The case alleges that the defendant acquired non-income assets. RAB members arrested Shamima Noor Papia and her husband Mofizur at the Dhaka airport on February 22 this year while fleeing abroad. They were seized seven passports, two lakh 12,270 rupees, 25,600 fake rupees, 310 Indian rupees, 420 Sri Lankan coins, US $ 11,991 and seven mobile phones.
Previously, on October 12, the court sentenced Shamima Nur Papia and her husband to a maximum of 20 years in prison in a case under the Gun Control Act.
From October 12, 2019 to February 22 this year, Papia paid a total of Tk 3,23,24,071 in cash for staying in 25 rooms at the Westin hotel, restaurant food, restaurant wine, spa, laundry, Mini bar food, mini bar. While staying at the Westin Hotel, he bought around 4 million rupees. No valid source of that money could be shown.
Apart from this, the ACC investigation revealed that in the five years from April 2015 to April 2020, Tk 30 lakh was invested in house rentals, Tk 1 crore was invested in the car business and Tk 20 lakh was invested at the KMC car wash solution in Narsingdi. No valid source for Rs 957 was found.
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