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Career

Nasiruddin served as the state minister of civil aviation and tourism in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet. He was the Four-party Alliance candidate in the 2005

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mayoral election. He was defeated by the incumbent mayor

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of the

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. He is an adviser of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former prime minister of Bangladesh,

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. On 5 May 2017, he met the chief of

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, at Hathazari Madrasa, Chittagong.

Corruption

On 12 July 2007, Nasiruddin was jailed by a special anti-corruption court for corruption along with his son Mir Mohammed Helal Uddin for 13 years. The

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nullified the sentences in August 2010. On 3 July 2014, the

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scrapped the High Court order that acquitted him of all charges.

References

Living people Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians State ministers of tourism and civil aviation of Bangladesh Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub