Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid | |
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Member of Parliament | |
In office 1996–2006 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Cox's Bazar-2.
Farid was elected to parliament in 1996 from Cox's Bazar-2 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was reelected from Cox's Bazar-2 in 2001. [1] He served in the Public Undertaking Committee in the Parliament. [2] During his term, he hired workers to cut down thousands of trees in state owned mangrove forests in Sonadia Island. [3]
Farid's brother, Shahidullah, is the Chairman of Baro Moheshkhali Union Parishad. On 2 September 2006, Chittagong Coastal Forest Department published Shahidullah's name in a list of individuals who grabbed forest land. [4]
On 13 May 2007, he was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion on corruption charges. [5] He was arrested on 5 extortion case filed against him in Moheshkhali Police Station on 15 April 2007. [6] Anti-Corruption Commission filed charges against him and his wife on corruption on 29 April 2008. [7]