Quazi Kamal
কাজী কামাল
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Magura-2
In office
March 1994  30 March 1996
Preceded byMohammad Asaduzzaman
Succeeded byBiren Sikder
In office
28 October 2001  27 October 2006
Succeeded byBiren Sikder
Personal details
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party

Qazi Saleemul Huq (known as Quazi Kamal) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Magura-2 constituency during 1994–1996 and 2001–2006.[1] He is the founder of GQ Group of Industries, a manufacturing based organization in Bangladesh.[2]

Kamal has been imprisoned since February 2018 for a 10-year sentence in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.[3]

Career

Kamal was elected in parliament from Magura-2 in the 1994 by-election as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[4] In 2001 he was elected again from the same constituency. He was appointed as the president of Magura District unit of the party.[5]

In January 2008, Kamal was acquitted from a case of abetting former state minister Salahuddin Ahmed in extorting money.[6]

On 10 August 2016, Kamal resigned from the executive committee of BNP over the inclusion of Nitai Roy Chowdhury in the committee.[7][8]

Kamal, along with the former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, Mominur Rahman, Kamal Uddin Siddique and Sharfuddin Ahmed, were sentenced to imprisonment in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case on 8 February 2018.[9][10]

References

  1. "Lawyer says Khaleda will challenge graft conviction in High Court". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  2. "Businessman, ex-MP Kamal leaves BNP protesting 'shady figures' in key posts". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  3. Biswas, Prokash; bdnews24.com. "Khaleda committed state financial crime by embezzling Zia Orphanage Trust fund: Court". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Party men demand punishment of ex-BNP MP in Magura". The Daily Star. 2007-09-25. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  5. "Magura's Quazi Kamal also quits BNP committee". The Daily Sun. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. "Ex-state minister Salahuddin jailed for 7 years". The Daily Star. 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  7. "Quazi Kamal quits BNP executive committee". clickittefaq.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  8. "Now Magura's Quazi Kamal quits BNP committee". Prothomalo. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  9. "Khaleda Zia jailed for five years in corruption case". Daily News. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  10. "Khaleda Zia jailed for five years in corruption case". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
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