Money laundering case
HC verdict on Tariques acquittal any day
The High Court will deliver its verdict any day on the appeal filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against a lower court judgment that acquitted BNP leader Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case.
The HC bench is also set to deliver its judgment any day on another appeal filed by Tariques friend and business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun against the trial court verdict that has sentenced him to seven years imprisonment in the same case.
After concluding hearing on the appeals, the bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain yesterday kept the appeals as CAV, meaning the court would consider the matter (pronounce verdict) any day.
The anti-graft watchdog filed the case against Tarique and his friend and business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun in October 2009 on charge of siphoning off money to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.
On November 17, 2013, a Dhaka court acquitted Tarique and sentenced Mamun to seven years imprisonment and also fined him Tk 40 crore in the case. On December 5 that year, the ACC appealed to the HC against Tariques acquittal in the money laundering case involving Tk 20.41 crore.
Following the appeal, the HC on January 19, 2014 asked the lower court to send the case records to it and ordered Tarique to surrender before the trial court. The HC, however, asked the trial court to grant him bail after his surrender.
