Abdur Rahman Bodi

Abdur Rahman Bodi is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the present Member of Parliament from Cox's Bazar.[1] He was accused of Yaba business and widely known as yaba drug lord in Bangladesh.

Abdur Rahman Bodi
Member of Parliament
Personal details
Political partyBangladesh Awami League

Career

He was elected to parliament from Cox's Bazar.[2]

Controversy

He was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges in November 2016.[3] He secured a bail from Bangladesh High Court in the case.[4] In July 2016, he was accused of being present in a meeting of Rohingya Solidarity Organization, an insurgency group in Myanmar, by Lieutenant Colonel Abuzar Al Jahid, commanding officer of Border Guards Bangladesh. A team of the guards had raided the meeting.[2] He has faced allegations of involvement in the Yaba trade, a narcotics.[5]

References
  1. "ACC fails to get stay on lawmaker Bodi's bail". The Financial Express. Dhaka. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  2. "MP Bodi: I was not there". Dhaka Tribune. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. "AL MP Bodi lands in jail". The Daily Star. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. "Convicted AL MP Bodi gets HC bail in graft case". The Daily Star. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  5. "Bodi leads Rohingya intrusion; yaba, human trafficking". Prothom Alo. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.


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