Law enforcers have claimed that some leaders of the BNP and its alliance partners conspired to kill after abducting the prime minister’s son and ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the US.
Police filed a case on Monday night against the vice-president of JaSaS, BNP’s cultural wing, Mohammad Ullah Mamun and several top BNP leaders for hatching the conspiracy.
At a press briefing yesterday afternoon, DMP Spokesperson Monirul Islam said the step was taken as Mamun’s son Rizve Ahmed Caesar had been found involved in a bribery scheme to obtain confidential information about Joy from a former FBI special agent in New York.
Investigators have found that Rizve sought the information for implementing his plans to abduct and kill Joy, the grandson of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“Mamun made the plan at the JaSaS office in Nayapaltan and other places in Dhaka to abduct and kill Sajeeb Wazed Joy,” Monirul said.
Some of the top BNP leaders and those of its allies had provided huge sum of money to bribe the former FBI agent. “That is why several BNP and alliance leaders were also made accused in the case,” Monirul said.
He, however, did not mention the other names but said that the accused had been staying in the country.
At present, Mamun is staying in the US. “So the investigators may visit the US and seek help from the FBI to solve the case,” Monirul said.
Md Anwar Hossain, deputy commissioner (Motijheel), earlier told the Dhaka Tribune that a case in this connection had been filed in a foreign country first.
In October 2014, both defendants pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud. Rizve and another person named Thaler both admitted to participating in a bribery scheme with former FBI special agent Robert Lustyik who worked on the counter-intelligence squad.
Thaler was Lustyik’s friend, and Rizve was an acquaintance of Thaler.
On March 4, a US court sentenced Rizve for his involvement in the bribery scheme.
In a Facebook post on March 9, Joy wrote: “When someone tries to kill me, I take it very personally. No matter how high up they may be in the BNP, I will bring them to justice.”
