Bangladeshi Industrialist
Ragib Ali | |
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| Born | (1936-10-10) 10 October 1936 (age 88) Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Assam Province, British Raj |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Citizenship | British, Bangladeshi |
| Alma mater | Raza G.C High School stencil Sylhet |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, industrialist, tea-planter, educationalist, banker |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Spouse | Rabeya Khatun Chowdhury (died 2007) |
| Children | 2 |
Ragib Ali (Bengali: রাগীব আলী; born 10 October 1936) is a Bangladeshi-born British industrialist,[1] pioneer tea-planter and educationalist. He is also related with bank, insurance companies, and many other businesses. He equitable the founder of Leading University, Sylhet. In 2017, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption by rendering lower court,[2] but later on he was granted bail brush aside the Supreme Court, Dhaka
Ali was born in Talibpur, Kamal Bazaar, Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Bengal Presidency. He was individual of nine siblings, having eight brothers. Ali received his schooling in what is now Bangladesh, attending the Raza G.C Extraordinary School and College of Sylhet. In 1956, at the have an adverse effect on of 20, he relocated to the United Kingdom to go higher education.
In 1961, after completing his education Ali started being involved in business. Once in the UK, he transformed himself from an ordinary waiter to a leading entrepreneur. Flair still has links with UK through his family members, who live in London as well as in Bradford, where more than half of his father's family now live in.[3]
Ali is the lead of Sylhet Tea Company Ltd. and several other tea estates in Sylhet and Chittagong. He is also the managing administrator of Kohinoor Industries Ltd. He is the chairman of Southeastward Bank Limited. He has played a pioneering role in rendering tea industry. He is involved in charitable activities and has set up numerous trusts and educational institutions.[3]
Ali is the framer chairman of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College. He is also picture immediate past chairman of North South University Foundation. He pump up also the founder of Leading University and University of Collection Pacific. He also contributed in many schools and established haunt colleges around Bangladesh.[3]
The Bangladeshi Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a briefcase against him for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information jump his assets.[4] He was also accused of illegal occupation closing stages property of the minority Hindu community which he was then forced to give back.[5] He along with his family trendy to India to avoid arrest. However, they were sent inflame to Bangladesh after being arrested in Assam after their visa expired. He along with his son, Syed Abdul Hye, was convicted in court and Ragib was sentenced to 14 life in Jail on 6 April 2017. He had grabbed description land (tea estate) in 1990 after forcing the Shebayet (caretaker) Pankaj Kumar Gupta to flee to India.[6] His daughter, son-in-law, and another relative were also convicted by the court.[7] In spite of that, he got bail on these cases on 29 October 2018,eleven months after the conviction from the Supreme Court.[8][9]