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'''Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid''' is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from [[Cox's Bazar-2]].

==Career==
Farid was elected to parliament in 1996 from [[Cox's Bazar-2]] as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was reelected from [[Cox's Bazar-2]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001|url=http://votemonitor.net:80/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=295|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229002930/http://votemonitor.net/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=295|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 December 2008|website=Vote Monitor Networks|accessdate=15 March 2018|date=29 December 2008}}</ref> He served in the Public Undertaking Committee in the Parliament.<ref>{{cite news|title=JS body to review power sector errs|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2003/07/27/d3072701055.htm|accessdate=15 March 2018|work=The Daily Star|date=27 July 2003}}</ref> During his term, he hired workers to cut down thousands of trees in state owned mangrove forests in Sonadia Island.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Christensen|first1=Joseph|last2=Tull|first2=Malcolm|title=Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific|date=2014|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9789401787277|page=124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgvGBAAAQBAJ&q=Alamgir+Mohammad+Mahfuzullah+Farid&pg=PA124|language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Farid's brother, Shahidullah, is the Chairman of Baro Moheshkhali Union Parishad. On 2 September 2006, [[Chittagong Coastal Forest Department]] published Shahidullah's name in a list of individuals who grabbed forest land.<ref>{{cite news|title=28 on Cox's Bazar land grabbers' list|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/2006/09/02/d6090201033.htm|accessdate=15 March 2018|work=The Daily Star}}</ref>

==Controversy==
On 13 May 2007, he was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion on corruption charges.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two ex-lawmakers, Bangla cop jailed on graft charges|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/two-ex-lawmakers-bangla-cop-jailed-on-graft-charges/472860|accessdate=15 March 2018|work=Outlook India}}</ref> He was arrested on 5 extortion case filed against him in Moheshkhali Police Station on 15 April 2007.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ex-BNP MP Farid arrested, Abu Zafar sent to jail|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/05/14/d7051401044.htm|accessdate=15 March 2018|work=The Daily Star|date=14 May 2007}}</ref> [[Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh)|Anti-Corruption Commission]] filed charges against him and his wife on corruption on 29 April 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=ACC set to sue Saifur's younger son for illegal wealth|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-34323|accessdate=15 March 2018|work=The Daily Star|date=29 April 2008|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:6th Jatiya Sangsad members]]
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[[Category:8th Jatiya Sangsad members]]
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[[Category:People from Cox's Bazar District]]


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