Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka Court on Wednesday sentenced Giasuddin Al Mamun better known as a friend of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman to seven years of imprisonment and fined him Tk 12 crore in a money-laundering case.
Judge Abu Syed Diljar Hossain of the Special Judge Court- 3 of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday noon. Earlier, on April 8, the court fixed Wednesday (April 24) for delivering the verdict after conclusion of the hearing.
According to the case statement, Giasuddin Al Mamun took Tk 6.57 crore illegally following a railway signaling tender between 2003 and 2006. Later, he siphoned off the money to London’s NatWest Bank.
On September 22, 2011, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Assistant Director Mohammad Ibrahim filed the case against Mamun, with the Cantonment Police Station on charge of money laundering.
The ACC submitted the charge-sheet of the case to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka on April 29, 2012, alleging that Mamun had siphoned off around 4,18,853 British pounds.
