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| Bangladesh |
| Zakat fund plundered |
| 2012-05-04 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday charged former state minister for religious affairs Mosharref Hossain Shahjahan, Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leaders Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad with misappropriation of Tk 1.28 crore from the government Zakat Fund. ACC Assistant Director Wajed Ali Molla submitted the charge sheet in a 2010 case to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, naming seven people including the three. The charge sheet also mentions 45 people as prosecution witnesses. The four other accused are Lutful Haque, former finance and accounting director of the Islamic Foundation; Miah Mohammad Yunus, secretary of Jatiya Bandhujan Gay Pareehad in Bhola; Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain, president of Islami Samajkalyan Kendra in Pirojpur, and Abdul Haque, assistant director of Masjid Council for Community Advancement in Manikganj. Of the accused in the case, Sayeedi is in jail custody in connection with crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War while Azad, also chairman of Masjid Council for Community Advancement in Manikganj, who is known as "Bachchu Razakar", is a runaway accused of war crimes. The five others are on the run. Names of Yunus, Tofazzal and Abdul Haque were not in the first information report (FIR), but came up in the charge sheet as their involvement in the corruption was found during the case investigation. Wajed Ali Molla, also investigation officer of the case, appealed to the court to issue arrest warrants against all the accused and an order to attach their moveable properties. Islamic Foundation Finance and Accounting Director Aiyub Ali Chowdhury filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on May 24, 2010. In the FIR, he said there were zakat committees in every district for distribution of the Zakat Fund. The accused being members of the committees had used their influence over the Zakat Board and got the fund released for their own organizations operating in four districts, whereas the fund was intended for the destitute people of 64 districts, the FIR adds. The case was filed following an enquiry by a three-member investigation committee formed by the Islamic Foundation into allegations of misappropriation. The enquiry found that fake signatures and thumb impressions had been used and identities of destitute people had been fabricated to misappropriate the fund, according to the FIR. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 They'd sell their mother's false teeth for about Tk 0.427 micro-crore. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-05-04 18:52 |
| #3 your point being..? |
| Posted by: American Delight 2012-05-04 18:37 |
| #2 Tk 1.28 crore is, I think = 12,800,000 Taka which would be about $100,00O on the street or $150,000 at the official exchange rate. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2012-05-04 08:29 |
| #1 Zakat accountancy is always terrible. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2012-05-04 07:10 |