Kamal Majumder sued for tax dodging

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday filed a case against detained former Awami League (AL) lawmaker Kamal Ahmed Majumder for dodging Tk 2.42 crore in income tax from 1986 to 2006.
Meantime, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) pressed charges against former AL lawmaker AKM Rahamatullah and his wife Hamida Rahamatullah in a case filed for amassing wealth worth Tk 5,17,45,914 through illegal means.
CASE AGAINST KAMAL
NBR Deputy Tax Commissioner Kabir Uddin Mollah filed the case with the Senior Special Judge's Court, Dhaka, for committing the offence.
After hearing, Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque recorded statement of the complainant, took the charges into cognisance and fixed August 14 for next hearing of the case.
The court also directed the jail authorities to produce the accused before it on the scheduled date.
In the case, the tax commissioner also stated that the former lawmaker concealed information of wealth worth Tk 7,81,19,698 from the NBR.
CASE AGAINST RAHAMAT
ACC Assistant Director Amirul Islam, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka, showing 25 people as prosecution witnesses.
He dropped the name of their son Safayet Ullah from the charge sheet and appealed to the court for discharging him from charges.
On March 27 this year, the ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station against Rahamatullah, his wife and their son on charges of amassing wealth worth over
Tk 5.08 crore beyond their known sources of income and concealing information about wealth worth over Tk 1.56 crore.