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| Sayedee, Mir Kashem face arrest warrants |
| 2010-08-20 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee and party leader Mir Kashem Ali hours after the National Board of Revenue (NBR) filed two separate cases against them for tax evasion. Sayedee was charged for dodging income tax amounting to Tk 56.45 lakh for the fiscal years from 2005-2006 to 2009-2010 while Kashem for evading income tax of Tk 11.27 lakh in the 2005-2006 fiscal year. NBR Deputy Tax Commissioner Masuma Khatun filed the case against Sayedee, who is already detained in a number of cases, while Tax Commissioner Moniruzzaman filed the case against Kashem, central executive committee member of Jamaat, with the Senior Special Judges' Court of Dhaka. After the hearing, Judge (In Charge) Mohammad Ismail Hossain took the charges into cognisance and issued the warrants. The court also directed the officers-in-charge (OCs) of Motijheel and Dhanmondi police stations to submit reports by September 16 on execution of the arrest warrants. It also fixed September 16 for the next hearing. In the case statement, Masuma said Sayedee, also a former Jamaat lawmaker, evaded Tk 56,45,812 in income tax on Tk 2,27,40,120 earned from different sources. He repeatedly provided false information about his income and expenditure, the statement said. Sayedee was arrested on June 29 this year in a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. Later, he was shown arrested in a number of criminal cases including three for allegedly killing people during the country's Liberation War in 1971. The statement of the case against Mir Kashem says that he evaded Tk 11,28,235 in income tax on Tk 34,85,866 earned through Keari Limited as its chairman and director. It also states that Kashem repeatedly misinformed NBR about his actual income. |
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