Nationalist Democratic Movement (NDM) Chairman Bobby Hajjaj is BNP chief Tarique Rahman’s protégé. The two have been working together for many years, more closely since 2018, when the anti-Awami League quarters started regrouping.
As a senior lecturer of North South University (NSU), Bobby Hajjaj incited and funded students from various educational institutions, including NSU, to take to the streets and engage in rampages in Dhaka during the quota movement in 2024.
Ahead of the February 12 elections, Bobby Hajjaj bought the ticket of the BNP as his party, the NDM, has no public support.
Ahead of the 2018 polls, he became mysteriously active in the field of politics but failed to achieve his political gains.
Targeting the Covid-19 period, he again became active and issued statements, criticising then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He also made indecent comments against important members of the cabinet.
The actions and biting remarks on Facebook and other digital platforms against myriad good deeds of the Awami League government suggest that he was engaged in a deep-rooted conspiracy to unseat the government and destabilise the country, intelligence agencies said in 2020.
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As part of the blueprint, he made statements criticising Sheikh Hasina, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, and State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. Bobby Hajjaj targeted the trio to serve the purpose of anti-liberation elements.
Son Of A Razakar-Turned-Godfather
Bobby Hajjaj’s father’s name is Prince Moosa bin Shamsher, alias Razakar Nula Musa, who was involved in crimes against humanity in the Faridpur area during the Liberation War in 1971.
Nula Musa fled before the country became independent. Later, during the reigns of Zia, Ershad, and Khaleda, he became known as a top money launderer and arms dealer. He also got his son appointed as an adviser to the deposed military dictator General HM Ershad.
On April 21, 1971, Nula Musa assisted the Pakistan Army behind the scenes by providing maps and directions to enter Faridpur. The next day, on April 22, eyewitnesses saw Major Akram Qureshi and Musa bin Shamsher talking in an intimate atmosphere at the Faridpur Circuit House. The people of Faridpur witnessed Musa’s criminal activities throughout the Liberation War.
Witnesses in the cases of Abul Kalam Azad, alias Bachchu Razakar, a fugitive convicted of crimes against humanity, and executed war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, mentioned Nula Musa in various incidents in Faridpur.
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After Yunus seized power, Bachchu Razakar returned to the country with a Pakistani passport. He surrendered at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) on Wednesday upon the promise that his sentence would be quashed.
Journalists Probir Sikdar and Sagor Lohani submitted a dossier on Nula Musa’s crimes to the tribunal in 2017, but the prosecution didn’t bring any formal charge against him till 2024.
On August 16, 2015, Probir Sikdar, the editor of online news portal Uttoradhikar 71 News, was arrested from his office by policemen in plainclothes after then-minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain filed a case against him for a Facebook status.
In the Facebook status, Probir Sikdar claimed to be under threat and that Minister Hossain, Nula Musa and fugitive war criminal Bachchu Razakar would be responsible if he were killed. He posted the status on August 10, days after police refused to register a General Diary over a threat he and his family had received.
On August 17, a local court sent Probir Sikdar to jail after police produced him to the court seeking remand for investigation.
Probir was attacked in April 2001, which left him with limited mobility following his reports in the Bangla daily, Janakantha, against war criminals Nula Musa and Bachchu Razakar.
Nula Musa started his manpower export business during General Ziaur Rahman’s tenure with Shahbaz International, later renamed DATCO Group.
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Business tycoon and DATCO Group Chairman Nula Musa appeared before the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Dhaka multiple times for interrogation regarding allegations of money laundering and illegal wealth accumulation.
Key details regarding his appearances and the ACC investigations include
December 2014 & January 2015: He was interrogated by the ACC following reports that he had amassed wealth worth over Tk51,000 crore, with $7 billion allegedly “frozen” in Swiss bank accounts.
False Information Charge: In March 2016, the ACC sued Moosa for providing false and baseless information regarding his wealth, as he failed to provide documents supporting his claims of having $12 billion in Swiss accounts and owning vast lands in Savar and Gazipur.
Customs Investigation: In May 2017, Moosa appeared before the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) regarding a case of smuggling a luxury Range Rover and tax evasion.
“Death Phobia”: During the investigation process, Moosa sought to postpone interrogations, with his representatives citing “death phobia” and health issues.
An investigation by the ACC ultimately concluded that his claims of having billions in foreign bank accounts were baseless and false.
In October 2019, the ACC filed a case against five persons, including Nula Musa, on charges of using a car registered with fake documents.
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The four others are Assistant Director of BRTA, Bhola District Circle Engineer Ayub Ali Ansar (current working place at Jhalokati), owner of automobile importer company Auto Define and Fiyas Enterprise, Md Wahidur Rahman, Moosa Bin Shamsher’s brother-in-law, Faruq-uz-Zaman Chowdhury, and a British passport holder, Farid Nabir.
They were charged for registering the luxury vehicle in his name by submitting a false bill of entry and evading Tk2.17 crore in tax. The car was brought from the UK in 2010 under a duty-free benefit on condition of re-exporting it after a certain period. But instead of re-exporting, the vehicle was registered with Bhola office of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) under the name of Faruq-uz-Zaman Chowdhury from Pabna using fake documents.
On March 21, 2017, Customs Intelligence seized the SUV from Dhanmondi in Dhaka.
On July 31 of the same year, the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) filed a case against him with Gulshan police station under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
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