Court Correspondent :Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) on Monday allowed the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed at the jail gate in a case filed with Gulshan Police Station in the capital for purportedly grabbing a government house worth about Tk three billion. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Ali Masud Shaikh passed the order to interrogate Moudud at the jail gate within three working days. The court also rejected Moudud’s bail petition. A group of pro-BNP lawyers including Sanaullah Miah conducted the hearing on behalf of Moudud.On January 21, ACC Deputy Director Harun-or-Rashid prayed to the CMM Court to show Moudud arrested in Gulshan PS case No. 18(12)13 and sought permission to interrogate Moudud at the jail gate in the case. The granted the plea to show Moudud arrested and fixed January 27 for hearing.On December 17 last year, the ACC filed the case against Barrister Moudud and his brother Manzur Ahmed on charge of grabbing the government house.According to the first information report (FIR), the Dhaka Improvement Trust, established in 1956 (now renamed as (Rajuk), Handed over a plot of one bigha and 14 katha in Gulshan residential area to Mohammad Ehsan on December 30, 1961.Later, the land was registered against wife’s name, Inge Maria Flatz, an Austrian national in 1965. Ehsan was a Pakistani national.As Ehsan and Flatz had left the country before the announcement of the list of government abandoned houses on January 21, 1972, the plot was included in the list of abandoned houses in August 1973, Moudud allegedly prepared a fake power of attorney of Maria Flatz to grab the land and used it to gain his own interest. Since then, Moudud had been living in the house showing himself as a tenant of Maria Flatz.When Moudud was holding different posts as minister and deputy prime minister and prime minister during 1978-1989, he allegedly tried to grab the house abusing his power, the FIR of the case says. Later, in March 1984, he made another power of attorney of Flatz against the name of Mohsin Darbar (an unknown person). According to the mutual legal assistance request (MLAR), Flatz died on March 30, 1985. But, Moudud made a sale deed between his brother Manzur Ahmed and Mohsin Darbar using the power of attorneyof a dead person. The FIR said Moudud Ahmed has been using the house since 1978 making different fake documents against his brother Manzur Ahmed’s name.
