A Dhaka court today sentenced six people, including a Chinese national and two officials of National Bank Ltd, to different terms of imprisonment in a case filed over the embezzlement of Tk 2.59 crore.
Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 25 Jan 2021 05:56 PM BdST
Updated: 25 Jan 2021 06:28 PM BdST
Kushtia Police Superintendent SM Tanvir Arafat has apologised for his ‘misbehaviour’ with a senior judicial magistrate during the municipal election in Bheramara. );
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Arafat appeared before a panel of judges on Monday seeking forgiveness after the High Court summoned him.
A virtual bench of Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Khijir Hayat exempted the police superintendent from personal appearance and scheduled the next hearing for Feb 17.
The court also ordered the authorities to provide security for Md Shahjahan Ali, the election-time presiding officer at the Bheramara Pilot High School centre and his family.
The top court also expressed worries over the complaints on recent reports of police persecution in Jashore.
On Jan 20, the High Court summoned Police Superintendent Tanvir Arafat to explain his misbehaviour with Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Mohsin Hasan.
It also issued a rule asking why no contempt of court charges should be brought against him. The ruling came after media reports on the incident.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Mohsin Hasan accused SP Arafat and his team of ‘misbehaving’ with him and stopping him from performing his duties during the Bheramara Municipality election on Jan 16.
The magistrate filed a plea with the Election Commission on Jan 17 seeking actions against the SP and his team.
Dirty business
January 21, 2021
It was early November morning when Kaveh Moussavi met with three unidentified men in the Nikko Hotel lobby. The discussions centered on valuable procurement contracts. According to Moussavi, these men were government officials and were demanding $1 million for the award of the contracts.
No, this is not Broadsheet and the meeting had nothing to do with Pakistan. This was Mexico in 1992, when Moussavi was acting as an agent for IBM and working on a 6.5 percent commission to help procure valuable radar and air navigation equipment contracts tendered by the Mexican government. Moussavi later broke the story to the Financial Times of how dirty officials in Mexico were fixing government contracts for bribes.