Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday took into cognizance another charge sheet against Jubo Mohila League’s expelled leader Shamima Nur Papiya and her husband Mofizur Rahman in a case filed on the charge of embezzlement of Tk 6.24 crore.
Senior Special Judge Court of Dhaka KM Emrul Kayesh accepted the charge sheet in presence of the two accused on Wednesday. The court also fixed November 8 for indictment hearing against the couple.
They are now in the prison and the prosecution yesterday produced them in the court on the occasion of hearing.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against Papiya and her husband with its Integrated District Office-1 of Dhaka on August 4, last year.
According to the case statement, Papia paid over Tk 3.23 crore in cash to the Westin Hotel for service between October 12, 2019 and February 22, 2020.
On February 22, last year, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Papiya, her husband Mofizur Rahman and their two cohorts from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with counterfeit banknotes, foreign currencies and cash money.
The elite force, later, raided their two luxurious flats in the capital’s Indira Road and recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of foreign liquor, Tk 58.41 lakh in cash, among other things.
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police filed two cases-one under the Narcotics Control Act and another under the Special Powers Act.
On October 12, they were imprisoned for 20 years in a case filed under the Arms Act.
