Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday formed a committee to investigate the incident of splitting the head of a newborn during a caesarean surgery in Cumilla Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) on March 18.
The two-member committee is headed by the head of Obstetrics and
pass any decision on it. But ACC lawyer Khurshed Alam Khan said, bank officials have to wait till High Court’s order as the HC bench sent the item to the Chief Justice.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on January 25 arrested M Wahidul Haque, former Chairman of AB Bank; Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, the bank’s former Head of Financial Institutions and Treasury; and businessman Saiful Haque— three of the eight accused— in connection with a case the ACC had filed over laundering of around Tk 165 crore between 2013 and 2014.
After they were produced in a Dhaka court, it granted bail to Wahidul and Mostafa, but sent Saiful on a three-day remand.
On January 31, the HC bench issued a Suo Moto rule asking the government, Wahidul and Abu Hena to explain as to why the bail granted by a Dhaka court on January 25 to Wahidul and Abu Hena in the money laundering case should not be cancelled.
The court also issued a travel ban on Wahidul and Abu Hena over the money laundering charges, ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshed Alam Khan told.
He said the HC judges issued the order and rule following a report published in daily Jugantor regarding Wahidul and Abu Hena’s bail granted by the lower court.
After hearing on March 21, the HC bench fixed April 4 for delivering the judgement on the rule that was issued on January 31.
The other accused in the case are— M Fazlur Rahman and Shamim Ahmed Chaudhury, ex-Managing Directors of AB Bank; Mohammad Lokman, the bank’s Head of Offshore Banking Unit; Mohammad Mahfuz Ul Islam, its Vice President of Corporate Treasury Department, and Nurul Azim, its Senior Vice-President.
This newspaper, based on an investigation report prepared by the Bangladesh Bank, published a news item on December 17 last year about the amount of money allegedly laundered from AB Bank to the UAE.
According to the case statement, businessman “Saiful introduced his friends and members of international fraud syndicate Khurram Abdullah and Abdus Samad Khan to Wahidul [former AB Bank Chairman] to launder money from AB Bank.”
Saiful, Chairman of Sky Aviation Services that is the general sales agent of Fly Dubai, is believed to be one of the kingpins of the money laundering syndicate.
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday formed a committee to investigate the incident of splitting the head of a newborn during a caesarean surgery in Cumilla Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) on March 18.
The two-member committee is headed by the head of Obstetrics and
pass any decision on it. But ACC lawyer Khurshed Alam Khan said, bank officials have to wait till High Court’s order as the HC bench sent the item to the Chief Justice.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on January 25 arrested M Wahidul Haque, former Chairman of AB Bank; Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, the bank’s former Head of Financial Institutions and Treasury; and businessman Saiful Haque— three of the eight accused— in connection with a case the ACC had filed over laundering of around Tk 165 crore between 2013 and 2014.
After they were produced in a Dhaka court, it granted bail to Wahidul and Mostafa, but sent Saiful on a three-day remand.
On January 31, the HC bench issued a Suo Moto rule asking the government, Wahidul and Abu Hena to explain as to why the bail granted by a Dhaka court on January 25 to Wahidul and Abu Hena in the money laundering case should not be cancelled.
The court also issued a travel ban on Wahidul and Abu Hena over the money laundering charges, ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshed Alam Khan told.
He said the HC judges issued the order and rule following a report published in daily Jugantor regarding Wahidul and Abu Hena’s bail granted by the lower court.
After hearing on March 21, the HC bench fixed April 4 for delivering the judgement on the rule that was issued on January 31.
The other accused in the case are— M Fazlur Rahman and Shamim Ahmed Chaudhury, ex-Managing Directors of AB Bank; Mohammad Lokman, the bank’s Head of Offshore Banking Unit; Mohammad Mahfuz Ul Islam, its Vice President of Corporate Treasury Department, and Nurul Azim, its Senior Vice-President.
This newspaper, based on an investigation report prepared by the Bangladesh Bank, published a news item on December 17 last year about the amount of money allegedly laundered from AB Bank to the UAE.
According to the case statement, businessman “Saiful introduced his friends and members of international fraud syndicate Khurram Abdullah and Abdus Samad Khan to Wahidul [former AB Bank Chairman] to launder money from AB Bank.”
Saiful, Chairman of Sky Aviation Services that is the general sales agent of Fly Dubai, is believed to be one of the kingpins of the money laundering syndicate.
