M Faruque Hossain :
The High Court (HC) Division of the Supreme Court fixed Thursday for delivering judgment on appeal filed against a lower court’s order that acquitted BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case.
The cause list of the SC website revealed that a HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain will deliver the verdict.
They will also deliver judgment on another appeal filed by Tarique’s friend and business partner Gias Uddin Al Mamun against the trial court verdict that gave him seven years’ imprisonment in the same case.
In October, 2009, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against Tarique Rahman and his business partner Gias Uddin Al Mamun for laundering Tk 204.1 million to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.
The amount was taken as bribe in 2003 from Khadiza Islam, Director of Nirman Construction Ltd, in exchange of helping her get a contract for building an 80 MW power plant in Tongi.
Mamun deposited the money in the City Bank, Capital Street branch and Tarique withdrew Tk 30.78 million from the account using a supplementary credit card issued in his own name but in Mamun’s account, according to the case documents.
A special trial court acquitted Tarique from the charges and sentenced Mamun to seven-year imprisonment and fined him Tk 40 crore. The ACC filed an appeal against the acquittal of Tarique on December 5, 2005.
Following the appeal, the HC on January 19, 2014 asked the lower court to forward the case records and ordered Tarique to surrender in the trial court. The trial of Tarique was conducted in absentia as he has been living in London since 2008.
He was arrested on March 7, 2007 during a crackdown by a military-backed caretaker government. He went to London on parole in September 2008 for medical treatment and has been living there since then. Mamun is now in jail. The money laundering case is one of the 16 cases, including the August 21 grenade attack cases, filed against Tarique.
The High Court (HC) Division of the Supreme Court fixed Thursday for delivering judgment on appeal filed against a lower court’s order that acquitted BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case.
The cause list of the SC website revealed that a HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain will deliver the verdict.
They will also deliver judgment on another appeal filed by Tarique’s friend and business partner Gias Uddin Al Mamun against the trial court verdict that gave him seven years’ imprisonment in the same case.
In October, 2009, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against Tarique Rahman and his business partner Gias Uddin Al Mamun for laundering Tk 204.1 million to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.
The amount was taken as bribe in 2003 from Khadiza Islam, Director of Nirman Construction Ltd, in exchange of helping her get a contract for building an 80 MW power plant in Tongi.
Mamun deposited the money in the City Bank, Capital Street branch and Tarique withdrew Tk 30.78 million from the account using a supplementary credit card issued in his own name but in Mamun’s account, according to the case documents.
A special trial court acquitted Tarique from the charges and sentenced Mamun to seven-year imprisonment and fined him Tk 40 crore. The ACC filed an appeal against the acquittal of Tarique on December 5, 2005.
Following the appeal, the HC on January 19, 2014 asked the lower court to forward the case records and ordered Tarique to surrender in the trial court. The trial of Tarique was conducted in absentia as he has been living in London since 2008.
He was arrested on March 7, 2007 during a crackdown by a military-backed caretaker government. He went to London on parole in September 2008 for medical treatment and has been living there since then. Mamun is now in jail. The money laundering case is one of the 16 cases, including the August 21 grenade attack cases, filed against Tarique.
