Ex-NBR official Matiur's wife Laila Kaniz sent to jail
The court also set 19 January for holding hearing on the remand plea filed by the ACC
A Dhaka court today (15 January) sent former upazila chairman Laila Kaniz, wife of former member of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Matiur Rahman, to jail in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order as police produced her before the court and ACC Assistant Director Md Ismail pleaded to place her on a seven-day remand in the case.
The court also set 19 January for holding hearing on the remand plea.
In the remand plea, the ACC official stated that the accused, as a government employee, was involved in the purchase and sale of a significant number of placement shares through abuse of power and forgery.
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The ACC need to know whether any other person is involved in the transaction and her amassment of illegal wealth too should be probed, it added.
Earlier in the day, Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Matiur Rahman and his wife Laila Kaniz from the city's Bashundhara area.
Matiur made headlines after a controversial incident last year, where his son, Mushfiqur Rahman Ifat, was involved in buying high-value goats, which attracted public and legal scrutiny.
The allegations against him surfaced after a video of Ifat buying a goat for Tk15 lakh went viral before Eid-ul-Adha.
On 4 June, ACC started an inquiry against Rahman over allegations of amassing illegal wealth and money laundering.
He was subsequently removed from his post in NBR and attached to the Internal Resources Division (IRD) of the Finance Ministry.
Following the inquiry, the ACC had filed several cases against Matiur and his family members over acquiring illegal assets.
Besides, the ACC filed a case against Laila on 6 January for amassing illegal wealth of Tk13.58 crore. She is also accused of concealing information about wealth of Tk1.53 crore.
