Shafiq-ur-Rahman explained

Shafiq-ur-Rahman
Office:1st Director General of Bangladesh Coast Guard
President:Abdur Rahman Biswas
Shahabuddin Ahmed
Primeminister:Khaleda Zia
Shahabuddin Ahmed (acting)
Sheikh Hasina
Term Start:22 February 1995
Term End:6 August 1998
Successor:Mohammed Abdul Motalib
Birth Date:3 December 1945
Birth Place:Sonatala, Bengal, British India
Party:Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Allegiance: (before 1972)
Branch:

Serviceyears:1967 - 1998
Rank: Commodore
Commands:

Shafiq-ur-Rahman (born, 3 December 1945) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former director general of the Bangladesh Coast Guard.[1] [2]

Career

Shafiq-ur-Rahman was the director general of the Bangladesh Coast Guard from February 1995 to August 1998. In 1998, the Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission filed cases against him at the Cantonment Police Station for embezzling 70 million taka. He retired as a naval commodore. He is a director of Ashiyan Group and executive director of Sentry Security Services Limited.[3] [4] He was arrested in September 2016 on the charges filed by the Anti Corruption Commission.[5] He is a member of the national executive committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[6]

Notes and References

  1. News: ACC arrests former DG of Coast Guard . The Independent . Dhaka . 29 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202071603/http://www.theindependentbd.com/post/61963 . 2 February 2017.
  2. News: Ex-Coast Guard DG lands in jail on graft charge . The Daily Observer . 29 January 2017.
  3. News: Former coast guard DG Shafiq-ur-Rahman arrested on graft charges . bdnews24.com . 29 September 2016 . 29 January 2017.
  4. News: ACC arrests ex-DG of Coast Guard . The Daily Star . 29 January 2017 . en . 29 September 2016.
  5. News: Ex-Coast Guard DG arrested on graft charge . Prothom Alo . 29 January 2017.
  6. News: Ex-Coast Guard DG Shafiq, army corporal arrested . New Age . 29 January 2017 . 30 September 2016.