Arrest warrant for Westmont chairman again
A Dhaka court yesterday again issued an arrest warrant against Tajul Islam Farook, chairman of Westmont Power Company, in connection with a cheating case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah Al-Manum passed the order after the police submitted a report saying that they failed to arrest Farook, who had earlier hit the headlines by filing a Tk 3 crore extortion case against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
On June 4 last year, the same court had issued an arrest warrant against Farook.
Ali Akkas Nurani, a consultant of the company, filed the case against him on charges of misappropriating one million US dollars instead of paying the amount to Nurani in consultancy fee.
In his complaint, Nurani mentioned that he had been working as a consultant of Westmont Power Company since 1998. He had an important role in making a formal contract between the Bangladesh government and Westmont Power Company Bangladesh Limited for setting up barge-mounted power plants at different places in the country.
Nurani added that the accused later misguided the company and misappropriated one million US dollars. The accused had also threatened to kill the complainant when he demanded his consultancy fee.
On April 9 in 2007, Tajul Islam had filed an extortion case with Tejgaon Police Station against Hasina, but later he appealed to the caretaker government to withdraw the case.
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