UNB, Dhaka :
The Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the High Court order that granted six months’ anticipatory bail to former Health and Family Welfare Minister and BNP leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain, passed the order upon an Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) plea.
Dr Mosharraf’s lawyer AJ Mohammad Ali and ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan were present during the hearing. On February 6,
ACC director Nasim Anwar filed the case against Dr Khandaker Mosharraf with Ramna Police Station in the capital.
On February 10, the HC granted six months’ anticipatory bail to the BNP leader in the case. According to the first information report (FIR), Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain laundered nearly 8.04 lakh British pounds (equivalent to Tk 9.54 crore) to the United Kingdom when he was the Health and Family Welfare Minister during 2001-2006. After examining the evidence and other documents, the ACC found a fixed term deposit of about 8.04 lakh British pound in a joint account (AC 108492) of Dr Khandaker Mosharraf and his wife, Bilkis Akhter Hossain, at Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking, Guernsey.
