Kazi Zafarullah (born April 1947) is a Bangladeshi industrialist and politician, a member of the ruling party, the Bangladesh Awami League's 12-member Presidium, its central working committee, and a former MP from Faridpur-5. Early life Zafarullah was born in April 1947, the eldest son of Kazi Mahbubullah and Begum Zebunnessa. He was educated at St Gregory's High School and Dhaka College, and has bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Dhaka. Career Zafarullah was critically injured in the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack which targeted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In 2005, Zafarullah attended a meeting between Sheikh Hasina and the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury. Zafarullah hosted a dinner for Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, the newly appointed High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, attended by diplomats and Awami League leaders on 1 February 2007. On 10 April, he criticized a case being filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and called it a conspiracy. The joint forces arrested him from in front of his home in Gulshan Thana on 18 April 2007 on three cases. He was sent to jail on 20 April. He was freed on 11 December on bail but arrested from the gate of the jail again as he was leaving under state of emergency powers. On 16 January 2008, he received bail and was released from jail according to Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui. In 25 January, he was indicted in an extortion case filed by Gazi Golam Dastagir. Mohammad Noor Ali of Unique Group alleged he gave Sajeeb Wajed Joy, son of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, half a floor at the UTC building located on Panthapath and registered under Zafarullah's name as commission on MiG-29 purchase deal. The Anti Corruption Commission pressed charges against Zafarullah in September 2008 for having 152.3 million taka beyond his known source of income and for hiding 70 million taka in his wealth statement submitted to the commission. He was also charged with money laundering 70 million taka. On 11 February 2009, the Anti Corruption Commission cleared Zafarullah, his wife, two sons on corruption charges. In 2013, it was reported that Zafarullah and his wife and other family members had created a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands from 2006 to 2008. In 2014, he lost his seat as an MP to an independent candidate, Nixon Chowdhury. Chowdhury, who