Bangladeshi national Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment on Friday for his alleged plot to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan.He was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation.On October 17, the FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis after he reportedly tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kg) car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, according to a criminal complaint.
The primary hearing on the case started at Brooklyn’s Eastern district Federal court in New York in January second week.
On November 15, the grand jury endorsed the charges brought against him.
The lawyer who stood in the court for Nafis strongly pleaded that Nafis is innocent as he has been implicated in the case in a planned way.
Earlier, Nafis claimed in the court that the allegations brought against him were not true, and he was innocent.
Nafis’ parents also said the allegations against their son were totally false.
Nafis went to the United States on a scholarship in January last year after completing five semesters in BBA at North South University.
Source: UNB Connect
