Staff Reporter :
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that legal steps would be taken over the allegation of human trafficking against Laxmipur lawmaker Quazi Shaheed Islam.
“Legal actions will be taken if there is any complaint of corruption will prove against the MP,” Quader told reporters at his ministry office at the Secretariat in the afternoon.
He said, “As per the
Prime Minister’s stance against corruption, I will ask the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to investigate the matter,” he said.
His comments came following media reports against lawmaker (Laxmipur-2) Quazi Shaheed Islam alias Papul that he is one of the three Bangladeshis who are involved in human trafficking in Kuwait.
Shaheed left Kuwait before a drive to arrest the human traffickers started there, according to a newspaper in Kuwait that disclosed it quoting the country’s Home Ministry.
The ring of the three amassed about Tk 1,400 crore through trafficking 20,000 Bangladeshis to that country, CID in Kuwait claimed.
According to a Bangladeshi daily, Kuwait’s Arabic daily Al-Qabas and Arab Times last Wednesday published a report against the Bangladeshi human traffickers. But the dailies did not reveal the name of this Bangladeshi lawmak The name of MP Shaheed Islam came to light when the Bangladesh mission in Kuwait was contacted, the daily added.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has rubbished reports in the Kuwaiti media linking an unnamed Bangladeshi lawmaker with a human trafficking ring operating in the Middle-Eastern country.
Responding to a question on the matter, Momen said, “We’ve heard that this is fake news.”
It added that the trio occupied sensitive positions in three major companies that brought over 20,000 Bangladeshi workers into the country in exchange for large sums of money believed to be in excess of 50 million dinars.
“The concerned ministry has no information on this. Our Kuwaiti mission hasn’t said anything about it yet,” said Momen.
He said, “But this was reported by a newspaper which itself questioned the veracity of the allegations later.”
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that legal steps would be taken over the allegation of human trafficking against Laxmipur lawmaker Quazi Shaheed Islam.
“Legal actions will be taken if there is any complaint of corruption will prove against the MP,” Quader told reporters at his ministry office at the Secretariat in the afternoon.
He said, “As per the
Prime Minister’s stance against corruption, I will ask the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to investigate the matter,” he said.
His comments came following media reports against lawmaker (Laxmipur-2) Quazi Shaheed Islam alias Papul that he is one of the three Bangladeshis who are involved in human trafficking in Kuwait.
Shaheed left Kuwait before a drive to arrest the human traffickers started there, according to a newspaper in Kuwait that disclosed it quoting the country’s Home Ministry.
The ring of the three amassed about Tk 1,400 crore through trafficking 20,000 Bangladeshis to that country, CID in Kuwait claimed.
According to a Bangladeshi daily, Kuwait’s Arabic daily Al-Qabas and Arab Times last Wednesday published a report against the Bangladeshi human traffickers. But the dailies did not reveal the name of this Bangladeshi lawmak The name of MP Shaheed Islam came to light when the Bangladesh mission in Kuwait was contacted, the daily added.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has rubbished reports in the Kuwaiti media linking an unnamed Bangladeshi lawmaker with a human trafficking ring operating in the Middle-Eastern country.
Responding to a question on the matter, Momen said, “We’ve heard that this is fake news.”
It added that the trio occupied sensitive positions in three major companies that brought over 20,000 Bangladeshi workers into the country in exchange for large sums of money believed to be in excess of 50 million dinars.
“The concerned ministry has no information on this. Our Kuwaiti mission hasn’t said anything about it yet,” said Momen.
He said, “But this was reported by a newspaper which itself questioned the veracity of the allegations later.”
