A top leader of BNP’s cultural wing has been sued over alleged involvement in conspiracy to abduct and kill prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.Detectives filed the case last night against Mohammad Ullah Mamun, vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas).DB Inspector Md Fazlur Rahman filed the lawsuit with Paltan Police Station around 8:45pm, said Morshed Alam, officer-in-charge of the station.According to the case statement, Joy, also the ICT affairs adviser to the p
remier, posted a Facebook status on March 9 accusing Mamun’s son Rizve Ahmed Caesar to have accepted money from BNP leadersforabducting and killing him.Rizve Ahmed Caesar was promised US $40,000 per month and given the first payment of US $30,000 in cash directly from very senior BNP, Joy said.A former FBI special agent on December 26 last year pleaded guilty before a US court to bribery over revealing confidential information about Joy.The accused, Robert Lustyik, and his co-defendant Johannes Thaler solicited payments of money from Bangladeshi Rizve Ahmed to get the internal information to which the former FBI special agent had access because of his position, according to a news release of the US Department of Justice.Following Joy’s status, a general diary was filed with Ramna Model Police Station on May 31 over this issue to verify his claim, said the case statement.Yesterday, the DB official sued Mamun for his alleged involvement in attempt to abduct and kill Joy.Yesterday, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a man for allegedly threatening Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq with death in Dhaka.On July 14, Annisul received a death threat by an unknown caller who introduced himself as “Imam Mohaki”. A general diary was later filed with Gulshan Police Station in this regard.
