NBR sues Mamun for dodging tax
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday filed a case with a Dhaka court against detained businessman Giausuddin Al Mamun for dodging Tk 14 crore in income tax during the years from 2000 to 2007.
Deputy tax commissioner Ayesha Siddiqui of the NBR filed the case with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court for committing the offences.
After the hearing, Judge ANM Bashir Ullah recorded statement of the complainant, took the charges into cognisance and fixed September 7 for next hearing of the case.
The court directed the jail authorities to produce Mamun on the scheduled date. Mamun is at present in jail custody.
In her complaint, Ayesha mentioned that Mamun, director of Initex Apparels Ltd, had evaded Tk 14 crore in income tax from an income of Tk 54 crore from the company for the fiscal years 2000-2007.
According to the case, Mamun repeatedly gave "false" information about his real income and expenditure to the Income Tax Department and did not show his return on income tax. He also "used his position to conceal information about his real income", the complainant alleged.
Mamun did not submit statement of the money earned from the company to the NBR for the fiscal year 2000-2007, the complainant said.
Mamun, a close friend and business partner of former BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, was arrested from his house at Banani DOHS on March 26 of 2007.
Later, police seized a .22 bore pistol and eight bullets form his house.
Mamun, an accused in a dozen extortion cases, was sentenced to a total of 23 years' imprisonment in separate cases for possessing firearms and ammunition, for not submitting his wealth statement, and for amassing wealth through illegal means.
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