Syed Shemul Parvez :
Abdul Quader Mazi is a name, an institute of deception, who has already crossed fraudster Sahid in cheat! His educational Qualification is only Tenth grader. But, he used to introduce as the additional secretary. He used to drive a Prado cars worth taka a one crore and 20 lakh. Even he used to enter the secretariat with the sticker and flag stand of the Ministry in that car. He had good relation with GK Shamim, the contractor arrested in connection with the casino scandal.
Not only that, he was introduced as the legal adviser of the rich prince Musa bin Shamser. He kept his weapons and walkie-talkies. In this way, Abdul Quader Majhi has deceived the job seekers, businessmen and contractors by pretending himself as an important figure. Abdul Quader, who owns a lot of wealth, has no legitimate income.
At present he owns crores of taka. But once upon a time he was a fisherman. His original home was in a landless peasant family in Subarnachar, Noakhali. For 14 long years, he took crores of taka from hundreds of people in the name of building houses and farms with government grants. The Detective Branch (DB) arrested Abdul Quader on October 7 on various charges.
At that time, the fake ID card and visiting card of the additional secretary were found in his pocket. Besides, illegal foreign pistols, magazines and one round of ammunition were found in his waist.
This operation was led by Harun-ur-Rashid, Joint-Commissioner of Police, DB’s Cyber and Special Crime Division (North). Additional Commissioner DB Chief AKM Hafeez Akter made the remarks at a press conference in the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media center on Saturday at noon.
He said Abdul Quader’s father had migrated to Sandwip in search of a livelihood. He used to earn his living by fishing and working as a boatman. Such landless floating Abdul Quader has assets worth crores of taka in Dhaka and outside Dhaka.
Among them, Jabbar Tower at Gulshan-1 has an office area of about 6,000 square feet.
There is also another office at Karwan Bazar. Although he lives in Mirpur-6, he has more than one flat.
The DB chief said Abdul Quader had bought a nine-storey house at Board Bazar in Gazipur. There are eight bigha garden houses in Pubail of Gazipur.
He has multiple accounts in several other banks including Dutch-Bangla Bank, Mercantile Bank, IFIC Bank, Sonali Bank and City Bank. Where there are millions of taka.
The DB officials said fraud and lies were his only assets. Abdul Quader has several well-known companies. These are: Dhaka Trade Corporation, Zamindar Trading, Samin Enterprise, Chowdhury Group, Human Improvement Foundation, and Satata Properties.
Abdul Quader cheated in a big way through the Human Improvement Foundation’s ‘One House One Farm Project’. In 2004-2006, he took crores of taka from hundreds of people in the name of building houses and farms with government grants. Abdul Quader used to cheat in the name of getting loans of taka 20 crore or more from various banks. In this case, his marketing people used to go to different contractors and businesses and advertise.
