11 policemen suspended for giving ‘undue privileges’ to Motiur, infamous for goat scandal

Eleven police personnel have been suspended after video footage showed them allowing the disgraced former tax official Motiur Rahman to dine in a roadside restaurant while under escort to jail. Motiur, a former member of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), is already notorious in Bangladesh for a scandal, dubbed the “goat affair”, which raised questions about his unexplained wealth and lifestyle. He was being taken from a Dhaka court back to Kishoreganj jail on Aug 12 when the prison van stopped outside the Nirala Haddi Hotel and Restaurant in Narsingdi. Motiur was filmed leaving the van, spending nearly an hour in a private dining room, and conversing closely with a man in plain clothes, while uniformed police stood by....