Tofail Ahmed Joseph

Tofail Ahmed Joseph is a Bangladeshi national and a former convicted killer with a history of organised crime activity. He is one of the Ahmed brothers, a group of siblings known for their involvement in gang violence in Dhaka during the 1980s and 1990s. Joseph was convicted and sentenced to death for murder in 2004, but later received a presidential pardon and was released from prison in 2018. His father was an official of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. The gang was involved in extortion, violence, and allegedly protected politicians of the Awami League, including Sheikh Hasina during the politically unstable 1980s and 1990s. On 20 September 2007, the High Court Division upheld his conviction. The pardon drew condemnation from civil society and international observers who questioned the transparency of the process and the apparent political favouritism.

Joseph is the brother of General Aziz Ahmed, who served as Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff from 2018 to 2021. In late 2018, shortly after receiving the presidential pardon, Joseph was photographed meeting with Bangladesh's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at the minister's residence. This meeting, which occurred just before his brother Aziz Ahmed's appointment as Chief of Army Staff, raised serious concerns about the political motivations behind Joseph's release.

Both Joseph and his brother Haris secured Bangladeshi passports under fake names. They had also acquired citizenship and a passport from Antigua and Barbuda. Their passports were later cancelled. In September 2024, Salim Prodhan, the chairman of the Japan-Bangladesh Security Printing and Papers Company Limited, filed an extortion case against him and his brothers.