Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed a petition with the High Court seeking cancellation of the lower court order that recently granted bail to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Chowdhury Samrat in a corruption case.
The High Court Bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat may hear the petition, said ACC’s lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.
Earlier in the day, the Bench allowed the ACC to file the petition with the court seeking cancellation of the lower court order on Samrat’s bail.
Samrat on August 22 secured ad-interim bail from a Dhaka court in the corruption case filed for siphoning around Tk 222 crore and channeling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.
ACC lawyer said, “Aspects which are supposed to be taken into consideration in granting bail to accused in cases filed under Money Laundering Act have not been taken into consideration. Moreover, it has been stated in the bail application that he is a patient admitted in the ICU. But we saw in the media that he was freed on bail and was roaming around, doing showdowns.”
Samrat staged a show-down on Friday (August 26, 2022) while appearing in public for the first time in three days after being released on bail.
On Friday, he went to Dhanmondi 32 with thousands of Jubo League leaders and workers to pay respect to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
On November 12 of 2019, the ACC filed the case against Samrat with its Integrated District office-1 of Dhaka for amassing illegal wealth of Tk 2.94 crore.
Samrat, the former president of Jubo League’s Dhaka City South unit, came under scrutiny over his alleged ties with the illegal gambling business after the Rapid Action Battalion busted casino operations in numerous clubs in the capital in September 2020.
He subsequently went into hiding before being arrested along with Arman in Cumilla on October 6 that year.
