Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s adviser on private industry and investment Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Haque have been arrested.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md. on Tuesday (August 13) afternoon. Mainul Hasan confirmed this information to Jago News.
He said that Salman F Rahman and former Law Minister Anisul Haque were arrested from the capital’s Sadarghat area while fleeing by sea on the basis of secret information.
DMP Commissioner said that they have been arrested in a case filed at Newmarket police station in the capital. They will be handed over to the court.
In the face of anti-discrimination student movement, Sheikh Hasina resigned from the post of Prime Minister and left the country on August 5. After that, many ministers-MPs of the government gave cover. There are also reports that some of them have left the country.
In the meantime, on August 8, the Nobel-winning economist Dr. A 17-member interim government has been formed with Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser.
After the formation of the Awami League government in the 11th parliamentary elections, the former member of parliament and industrialist Salman Fazlur Rahman aka Salman F Rahman was appointed as the adviser on private industry and investment to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He was retained in the same position even after the twelfth parliamentary elections.
On the other hand, in 2014, Anisul Haque was elected as a Member of Parliament of Awami League from Brahmanbaria-4 (Kasba) constituency in the 10th parliamentary elections. The government made him the law minister during that period. Since then he held the post of Law Minister.
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