Abdur Rahman Bodi (born 4 January 1970) is a

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politician and a former

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member representing the

Cox's Bazar-4 Cox's Bazar-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Shahin Akhtar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas. History The constitu ...

constituency during 2009–2019. Bodi did not get the party's nomination for the

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but instead, his wife, Shahin Akhtar, did and went on to win the election and became the incumbent member of the same constituency.

Drug trafficking

In a June 2015 report, Bodi topped the list of 79 leading human traffickers of Cox's Bazar according the

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. According to the Narcotics Control Department, he was the chief patron of the yaba smugglers. Bodi's constituency

Teknaf Teknaf ( bn, টেকনাফ ''Ṭeknaf'') is an upazila of Cox's Bazar District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It forms the southernmost point in mainland Bangladesh (St. Martin's Island is the southernmost point). The name of the ...

is the only smuggling route of yaba through Bangladesh-Myanmar border. Bodi was also one of the facilitators who help

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include in the voter list and get national identity card illegally. 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

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. A team of the guards had raided the meeting.

Charges and convictions

In 2007, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) accused Bodi for hiding information of Tk 43.4 lakh and accumulating wealth of Tk 66.7 lakh from unknown sources of income. He was indicted for this case in September 2020. On 21 August 2014, ACC accused Bodi of amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement. He was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges in November 2016. He secured a bail from Bangladesh High Court in the case. In May 2022, High Court cleared the way for the lower court to run the trial proceedings of that case.

References

Living people 1970 births Awami League politicians 9th Jatiya Sangsad members 10th Jatiya Sangsad members Place of birth missing (living people) {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub