Two days after Narayanganj seven-murder prime suspect Nur Hossain had been deported from India, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday said they would serve a notice against him for amassing illegal wealth.
Seeking anonymity, an ACC official said that they were waiting for approval from the commission for serving the notice.
The ACC said that their inquiry against the former Narayanganj panel mayor had started long ago, on May 19 last year, about a month after the sensational murders. But the commission could not move ahead with summons and interrogations Nur had fled.
When contacted, ACC Chairman M Bodiuzzaman told the Dhaka Tribune that the inquiry, which got postponed because Nur fled, would not be restarted.
This means that the commission might now go ahead with filing an official case against Nur which could not be done before
In initial inquiry, the anti-graft watchdog has found that he had disclosed information about wealth worth around Tk8 crore including a five-storey building, 30 long-route passenger buses and significant amount of landed property in the city.
According to the last tax return that Nur submitted to the National Board of Revenue (NBR), his annual income was Tk1.07 crore and the source of this income was fish farming. The return does not have any mentions of the buses, buildings and land that he owns.
A source said that the ACC had also found evidence that Nur Hossain, using his political muscles and backing, grabbed land for his fish farm and the building.
His first job was as a bus helper in 1986, but in just six years, he became a local political figure. He joined the BNP in 1992 and became the chairman of the Shiddhirganj union counil in Narayanganj. The BNP was in state power at that time. He switched party and joined the Awami League in 1996. It was the same year the Awami League formed government after more than two decades.
That year, local influential Awami League leader Shamim Osman made Nur Hossain the president of the Kanchpur Truck Driver and Workers’ Union.
Nur remained in hiding during the two-year tenure of the army-backed caretaker government in 2007-2008 when he was wanted in at least 13 cases. He only came back to Narayanganj after the Awami League was elected to power again in 2009.
This time around, he became the vice-president of the Shiddhirganj unit of Awami League. In the 2011 city elections in Narayanganj, he was elected a councillor.