Ex-BNP minister Redwan given 3 years’ jail term

Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced former BNP State Minister for Liberation War Affairs Redwan Ahmed to three years’ imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over embezzlement of Taka 50 lakhs from the fund of Muktijudda Sangsad.

Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Judge Court-2 of Dhaka handed down the verdict, said the Anti-Corruption Commission’s Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam.

The court also fined him Taka 50 lakh and issued an arrest warrant against him as he went into hiding.

But the court acquitted Shah Alam Chowdhury, the then Secretary General of Muktijudda Sangsad as the charge brought against him could not be proved.

According to the case statement, freedom fighter Nurul Islam filed the case against Redwan Ahmed and Shah Alam Chowdhury for embezzling Taka 50 lakh from the fund of Muktijudda Sangsad with Ramna Model Police Station in the capital on February 15, 2007.