Sajeeb Wazed testifies in court about plot to murder him

Correspondent :
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, testified in a case filed against five people in connection with making a plot to abduct and murder him.
Joy, who is also the Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser, appeared in court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzman Noor of Dhaka on Sunday, said Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu. So far, 10 out of the 15 witnesses testified in the case. The case was filed with Paltan Police Station of the city in August 2015.
Mohammad Ullah Mamun, Vice-President of Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha, a pro-BNP organization, and other top-brass leaders of the BNP and its allies united in the
group’s office in Dhaka’s Paltan area, New York and the UK at some point before September 2011 to chalk out a plan to murder Joy after abducting him, according to the case dossier.
The other accused people are- Shafik Rehman, former Editor of the Jai Jai Din, Mahmudur Rahman, acting Editor of Bangla-language newspaper Amar Desh, Jatiyabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) Vice President Mohammad Ullah Mamun, his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, a expatriate businessman living in the United States. Rizvi collected personal information on Joy from the US intelligence agency FBI and provided it to the other suspects, according to the charge sheet.
Similar accounts are mentioned in another court document, dealing with a case in which Rizvi was handed a three-year prison term in 2015 after he was found guilty of bribing an FBI official to obtain classified information.
The document indicated that he handed the information to a Bangladeshi journalist in return for $30,000.
According to the case docket, the accused had several meetings on different occasions in Jasas office of Naya Paltan in the capital, in the United Kingdom and in the United States to make their alleged plot.
The matter triggered discussions in the Parliament of Bangladesh. Joy, who lives in the US with his family, accused BNP leaders of conspiring to ‘abduct and kill him’ in a Facebook post in March that year. Police later pressed charges against the five suspects in February 2018.