Shafiq-ur-Rahman (commodore)

Shafiq-ur-Rahman is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former director general of the Bangladesh Coast Guard.

Career

Shafiq-ur-Rahman was the director general of the Bangladesh Coast Guard from February 1995 to August 1998. In 1998, the Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission filed cases against him at the Cantonment Police Station for embezzling 70 million taka. He retired as a naval commodore. He is a director of Ashiyan Group and executive director of Sentry Security Services Limited. He was arrested in September 2016 on the charges filed by the Anti Corruption Commission. He is a member of the national executive committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.