Ragib Ali

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Ragib Ali
রাগীব আলী
Born (1936-10-10) 10 October 1936 (age 88)
Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Assam Province, British Raj
NationalityBangladeshi
CitizenshipBritish, Bangladeshi
Alma materRaza G.C High School of Sylhet
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, industrialist, tea-planter, educationalist, banker
Years active1961–present
SpouseRabeya Khatun Chowdhury (died 2007)
Children2

Ragib Ali (Bengali : রাগীব আলী; born 10 October 1936) is a Bangladeshi-born British industrialist, [1] pioneer tea-planter and educationalist. He is also associated with bank, insurance companies, and many other businesses. He is the founder of Leading University, Sylhet. In 2017, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption by the lower court, [2] but later on he was granted bail by the Supreme Court, Dhaka

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Early life

Ali was born in Talibpur, Kamal Bazaar, Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Bengal Presidency. He was one of nine siblings, having eight brothers. Ali received his education in what is now Bangladesh, attending the Raza G.C High School and College of Sylhet. In 1956, at the age of 20, he relocated to the United Kingdom to pursue higher education.

Career

In 1961, after completing his education Ali started being involved in business. Once in the UK, he transformed himself from an ordinary waiter to a leading entrepreneur. He still has links with UK through his family members, who live in London as well as in Bradford, where majority of his father's family now live in. [3]

Ali is the chairman of Sylhet Tea Company Ltd. and several other tea estates in Sylhet and Chittagong. He is also the managing director of Kohinoor Industries Ltd. He is the chairman of Southeast Bank Limited. He has played a pioneering role in the tea industry. He is involved in charitable activities and has set up numerous trusts and educational institutions. [3]

Ali is the founder chairman of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College. He is also the immediate past chairman of North South University Foundation. He is also the founder of Leading University and University of Asia Pacific. He also contributed in many schools and established many colleges around Bangladesh. [3]

Controversy

The Bangladeshi Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against him for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information about his assets. [4] He was also accused of illegal occupation of property of the minority Hindu community which he was subsequently forced to give back. [5] He along with his family fled to India to avoid arrest. However, they were sent back to Bangladesh after being arrested in Assam after their visa expired. He along with his son, Syed Abdul Hye, was convicted in court and Ragib was sentenced to 14 years in Jail on 6 April 2017. He had grabbed the land (tea estate) in 1990 after forcing the Shebayet (caretaker) Pankaj Kumar Gupta to flee to India. [6] His daughter, son-in-law, and another relative were also convicted by the court. [7] However, he got bail on these cases on 29 October 2018,eleven months after the conviction from the Supreme Court. [8] [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Industrialist Ragib Ali sued". The Daily Star . Bangladesh. 31 January 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  2. ↑ "Land grabbing: Ragib Ali lands in jail". UNB. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Karim, Mohammed Abdul; Karim, Shahadoth (July 2008). British Bangladeshi Who's Who (PDF). British Bangla Media Group. p. 44. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "Industrialist Ragib Ali sued". The Daily Star. 31 January 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Our Hindu problem". bdnews24.com (Opinion). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Land grabbing: Sylhet industrialist Ragib Ali gets 14yrs' jail". The Daily Star. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Ragib Ali gets 14 yrs jail in land grabbing case". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Industrialist Ragib Ali, son released from Sylhet jail". Dhaka Tribune. 29 October 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Sylhet industrialist Ragib Ali, family flee to India to evade arrest over Hindu land grabbing". bdnews24.com. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
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