In the 2018 election, Jahangir Kabir Nanok was not nominated by the Awami League. Various discussions and analyses began as to why a heavyweight leader like him did not get the Awami League's nomination.

Investigations revealed that the US Embassy had directly accused Nanok of involvement in the attack on US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat's motorcade. It is likely that due to pressure from the US, Sheikh Hasina ultimately did not nominate Nanok. However, despite not receiving the nomination, Nanok was soon rewarded. He was promoted from Awami League Joint General Secretary to a member of the Presidium. At that time, Sadek Khan was nominated in Mohammadpur. After the 'night vote' election of 2018, many thought that Nanok's political career would end and his chapter of corruption and plunder in Mohammadpur would conclude.

But it's noteworthy that Jahangir Kabir Nanok proved that even when a person loses everything, if they are corrupt and a scoundrel, they can find ways to be corrupt from anywhere. A story told by the late Syed Ashraful Islam about Nanok is very relevant here. Syed Ashraful Islam said, "There was a government employee who committed corruption wherever he was transferred. When widespread accusations of corruption were made against him, his superiors were furious. They decided to transfer him to a place where there was no opportunity for bribery. After much deliberation, they transferred him to a river area where his job was to sit with a chair and table and count the waves of the river. Everyone thought he had no way to take bribes now; counting waves wouldn't bring him any illegal income. But a corrupt person knows how to be corrupt in any place, under any circumstances.

A few days later, trawler, launch, and ferry owners went to the higher authorities of the government and pleaded with them to remove that person from there. The superiors were astonished. They asked, 'He has no work, he's just there to count waves. There's no way for him to earn money there.' The boat owners replied, 'That official is obstructing our movement. He claims that our movement disrupts his wave counting, and he is obstructing our vessels on this pretext. He only allows passage if we pay him. It's not possible to keep paying him like this.'

Jahangir Kabir Nanok was of this species. He was a state minister in 2009 and engaged in immense corruption. He lost his state minister position. In 2014, as an MP, he established a reign of terror in his area. And after the 2018 election, he was neither a minister nor an MP. But who could stop him from being corrupt? Wherever Nanok went, he would discover new ways to be corrupt. Soon after becoming a member of the Awami League Presidium, he started engaging in committee and nomination trading. He began plundering thousands of crores of taka through a series of committee and nomination trades.

After the 2018 election, local government elections began. The Awami League decided that these elections would be held under the party symbol. Accordingly, an unrestrained nomination trade started within the party. Leaders plundered and took money in any way they could. As the opposition parties, including the BNP, decided not to participate in any elections under this government, a notion developed within the Awami League that whoever received the nomination would automatically be elected as the Union Parishad chairman, Upazila chairman, or municipal mayor. Getting the people's vote was not a concern. In this situation, a golden opportunity arose for Jahangir Kabir Nanok. He was as if he had found a gold mine. People who wanted to contest for the Union Parishad chairman position were willing to pay 1 crore taka. Awami League leaders knew that it wasn't enough to give money to just one person; other members of the nomination board also had to be paid. This is why they started giving money to all the members of the nomination board. It's worth noting that because Sheikh Hasina did not give Nanok a nomination in the 2018 election, she made him a member of the Awami League's local government nomination board. After becoming a member, Nanok never had to look back. He engaged in unrestrained nomination trading.

He didn't stop at just nomination trading. At this time, new conferences for various committees were being organized. After the conferences, district-level committees were formed. Since Nanok, Bahauddin Nasim, Abdur Rahman, and a few other important leaders were not nominated for the election, Sheikh Hasina specifically entrusted them with the responsibility of forming the committees. Taking this opportunity, they started a syndicate of committee trading. They introduced the policy of "the committee belongs to whoever has the money." Corrupt millionaires who joined the Awami League, known as 'hybrid Awami League,' and who were involved in various businesses and came to the Awami League to engage in corruption and legitimize their illegal businesses, paid crores of taka to Nanok's syndicate to get committee approvals. Many believe that the downfall of the Awami League started with this committee trading. People who were not associated with the party and had never been involved in Awami League politics got into the committees. As a result, the Awami League's committees became ineffective. But what did it matter if the Awami League's committees became ineffective? Jahangir Kabir Nanok flourished. His wealth continued to grow. Since he was neither an MP nor a minister at this time, he was not under anyone's surveillance. Neither the media nor the government paid attention to him, so Nanok began reckless plunder and looting.

Multiple sources say that during this time, Nanok started investing abroad. Nanok's eldest son had already died in a car accident. Nanok's daughter, Rakhi, who was in London, returned home after a separation from her husband. After that, his daughter Rakhi started supervising this illegal plundering. With Rakhi's supervision, Nanok started investing the plundered money abroad. However, the interesting thing is that while other Awami League leaders invested in countries like London and the United States, Nanok did not follow that path. Instead, Nanok invested a large portion of his illegal money in India. He sent money to various businessmen in India through communication. That money was invested in India under a different name. On paper, Nanok has no assets there. There is no way to catch him. But these businessmen give Nanok a share of the profit every month. It is reported that the luxurious house Nanok lives in now in Newtown, Kolkata, was bought by him with the money he plundered and sent from Bangladesh. Nanok is that shrewd person in Awami League politics who has amassed huge wealth but has nothing in his name on paper.

Investigations have shown that Nanok has a number of trusted followers and cadres. He always preferred to be surrounded by his cadres. He kept all his land and money in the names of his cadres and kept nothing in his own name. As a result, when the Anti-Corruption Commission investigates him, his assets are found to be very small. But in the last 15 years, Nanok has plundered nearly 4,000 crore taka. There are assets in the alleys of Mohammadpur and Dhanmondi that belong to Nanok. The local people know that Nanok is the owner of these properties. But it is a difficult task to legally prove his ownership.