Convicted fugitive and funder of Islamic State (ISIS) Shahid Uddin Khan has hired British Tory Party’s MP Stephen William Hammond as his cohort in Khan’s nefarious agenda against Bangladesh.
Since 2010, terrorist Shahid Uddin Khan has been maintaining connections with British politician and currently Torey Party’s MP Stephen William Hammond. According to media reports, Shahid Uddin Khan has also business relations with British Conservative Party politician Stephen William Hammond, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon since 2005.
On 4 September 2012, Hammond was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, with responsibility for buses, rail and shipping. He lost his ministerial post in the reshuffle on July 15, 2014 and was succeeded by Claire Perry. He became Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for London on 20 July 2017 and was sacked the following December 16 after participating in a Brexit rebellion against the government of Theresa May three days earlier.
Hammond was however appointed to be a Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care on November 16, 2018, following the promotion of Stephen Barclay to the position of Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. On September 3, 2019, he had the whip removed after voting for a bill ruling out leaving the European Union without a deal. However, on October 29 he was one of ten Conservative MPs to have the whip restored.
According to a source, Shahid Uddin Khan has frantically trying to use the influence of Stephen Hammonds in getting a bill against Bangladesh government passed in the British parliament.
Interpol wanted criminal’s sleeper cell in Bangladesh
With the agenda of spreading terrorist activities throughout Bangladesh, fugitive terrorist Shahid Uddin Khan, who is on Interpol’s RED NOTICE and facing convictions in a number of cases, including terror financing, money laundering, dealing in weapons and counterfeit currency has been forming one-after-another sleeper cells in the country. While for the last few days, Shahid Uddin Khan has been posting videos of illegal rallies organized by the members of his sleeper cells in different parts of Bangladesh, law enforcement agencies are yet to nab any of these culprits.
According to information, the first illegal rally of the members of terror sleeper cell took place in Munshiganj districts on October 1, 2021. It was followed by similar rally in Netrokona district on October 4, 2021, in Kishoreganj district on October 8, 2021 in Barisal district on October 10, 2021 and Gazipur district on October 11, 2021. According to terror-funder Khan’s social media posts, similar activities are still continuing in different parts of the country.
Although for years, Weekly Blitz has been publishing notorious activities of Shahid Uddin Khan and has also published reports on the criminal activities of his sleeper cells in Bangladesh, none of the members of members of these sleeper cells had been either arrested or interrogated by the law enforcement agencies.
It may be mentioned here that, as per UK’s law, it is totally illegal for anyone in using the British soil in running terrorist activities in other countries. Any foreign national committing such crimes may face extradition.
Commenting on illegal and criminal activities of Shahid Uddin Khan, a former official of British MI5 told this correspondent: “This man [Shahid Uddin Khan] has been consistently violating British law by running criminal and terrorist activities in Bangladesh. As per provisions of the laws, he must be interrogated and deported to Bangladesh, while his ill-gotten millions of dollars and properties in Britain should be confiscated”.
Md. Shahid Uddin Khan (Army No: BA002428, Course: 8-BMA, Commission Date: 10-06-1983) and his wife and daughters entered Britain with millions of dirty cash. In 2009, Shahid Uddin Khan invested millions of pounds in the United Kingdom in exchange of obtaining immigrant status under Visa Tier 1, vide VAF No. 511702. The family had laundered an unknown amount of money and brought that into the United Kingdom via United Arab Emirates and few more countries, while Shahid Uddin Khan had invested over 18 million pounds for buying citizenship under Britain’s scandalous ‘Golden Visa’ scheme.
On May 25, British newspaper The Sunday Times, in an exclusive report, revealed that Md Shahid Uddin Khan had been charged with funding terror groups, arms dealing and money laundering offenses in Bangladesh. According to the British newspaper, the sacked army officer has political links in Britain and had funded Stephen Hammonds, a Tory Party MP.
Sources told IANS that the sacked Bangladeshi Colonel Md. Shahid Uddin Khan migrated to London in 2009 under mysterious circumstances along with his wife Farjana Anjum and daughters named Shehtaz Munasi Khan, Parisa Pinaz Khan and Zumana Fiza Khan. Members of this family are having business operations in Dubai as well as in Britain. As per the latest dossier on the Dawood Ibrahim gang, the D company is involved in smuggling counterfeit Indian Currency Notes (FICN) and contraband narcotics. The illegal activities are being operated from Nepal and Bangladesh.
For the past several months, Shahid Uddin Khan along with several individuals such as Kanak Sarwar, Shahidul Islam and others have been running heinous propaganda offensives against Bangladesh government as well as several key officials of the government. In most of those propaganda contents, Shahid Uddin Khan has been using highly derogatory remarks about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Investigative journalists of this newspaper have identified few of the cohorts of Shahid Uddin Khan in his continuous propaganda against Bangladesh. Here are the details:
Sheikh Rashedul Islam Rajan, member secretary of Meherpur upazilla Chhatra Dal (student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party).
Tanjum Jannat A T, member of Islami Chhatri Sangstha, an Islamist student front of Jamaat-e-Islami. According to Facebook profile, she lives in Sylhet.
Mohammed Awlad Hossain, a pro-BNP activist who currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Monir Khan, an activist of BNP and lives in Bangladesh.
Hashem Akhondo, a former member of Bangladesh Rifles.
Md Humayun Kabir, an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami. Currently lives in Monirampur, Khulna.
Rokonuddin Ronju, hailing from Mymensingh district and an Islamist activist.
Golam Mostofa, running a news portal named Payra News alongside few more business projects.
