Rise and power base
Public roles are source-confirmed; controversies or allegations must be read separately as source-backed evidence-layer material.
Bangladesh
A senior tax-administration and public-finance official documented through government notifications, institutional reporting, and established news coverage.
Aliases: Abdur Rahman Khan, Md. Abdur Rahman Khan, আবদুর রহমান খান
Established reporting documents his IRD and NBR roles, while Daily Naya Diganta reported that the July ঐক্য platform named him in a list alleging closeness to the Awami League. That is reported political criticism, not an established finding.
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Public roles are source-confirmed; controversies or allegations must be read separately as source-backed evidence-layer material.
Bangladesh
Reported themes: tax administration, public finance, revenue-collection oversight, institutional management, and allegation-based political criticism concerning bureaucratic affiliation.
The public-interest value is understanding how power in state institutions, policing, media, urban governance, or finance is discussed in records.
Daily Star reported his appointment as NBR chairman and IRD secretary in August 2024, after his service as Financial Institutions Division secretary. BSS later documented him performing public revenue-administration duties. bdnews24 reported that he joined the tax cadre in 1994 and described a public institutional security incident involving his official WhatsApp account. The reviewed sources found no source-backed criminal case against this same official; caseIds therefore remains empty.
Next steps should model each claim, case, court order, response, or correction as a separate structured record.
দৈনিক নয়া দিগন্ত · 21 May 2025
Report that the July ঐক্য platform published an allegation-based list and included Md Abdur Rahman Khan, then Secretary of the Internal Resources Division.
The Daily Star · 14 Aug 2024
The report says the government appointed Abdur Rahman Khan as NBR chairman and IRD secretary after his service as Financial Institutions Division secretary, and records his tax-cadre civil-service background.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 7 Jul 2025
BSS reported that IRD Secretary and NBR Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan visited Dhaka Customs House and reviewed customs operations and revenue-service systems.
Department of Printing and Publications, Government of Bangladesh · 29 Aug 2024
The gazette records Md Abdur Rahman Khan's appointment as a Bangladesh Bank director subject to his remaining in his current government role.
bdnews24.com · 24 Sep 2025
bdnews24 reported an NBR statement that Md Abdur Rahman Khan's WhatsApp account had been hacked, and described his tax-cadre and public-administration career history.