ACC appeal Badi acquittal on graft charges

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed an appeal with the High Court challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Badi of the charges in a corruption case. Later, ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan told reporters that the lower court has not properly considered the charge against Cox’s Bazar-4 constituency MP Badi of accumulating illegal wealth. The High Court is yet to fix any date for hearing the appeal. Yesterday the HC granted bail to the AL lawmaker for six months in  the case, clearing the way for his release from jail. Earlier, on November 2, a Dhaka court had sentenced him to three years in jail and fined Tk 10 lakh for hiding information about his wealth to ACC. The court, however, acquitted Badi of the charge of amassing wealth illegally. The ACC filed the case with Ramna police station in Dhaka on August 21, 2014, accusing the legislator of amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement. Badi was arrested and put in jail for three weeks in October 2014. He later secured bail from the High Court. On May 7 last year, the ACC’s investigating officer, deputy director Manjil Morshed, submitted the charge-sheet against Badi in the court. The charge-sheet said Badi had accumulated more than Tk. 6.3 crore disproportionate to the known sources of his income, and that he had concealed information from the ACC about assets worth more than Tk. 3.9 crore.

ACC appeal Badi acquittal on graft charges

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed an appeal with the High Court challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Badi of the charges in a corruption case. Later, ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan told reporters that the lower court has not properly considered the charge against Coxs Bazar-4 constituency MP Badi of accumulating illegal wealth. The High Court is yet to fix any date for hearing the appeal. Yesterday the HC granted bail to the AL lawmaker for six months in the case, clearing the way for his release from jail. Earlier, on November 2, a Dhaka court had sentenced him to three years in jail and fined Tk 10 lakh for hiding information about his wealth to ACC. The court, however, acquitted Badi of the charge of amassing wealth illegally. The ACC filed the case with Ramna police station in Dhaka on August 21, 2014, accusing the legislator of amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement. Badi was arrested and put in jail for three weeks in October 2014. He later secured bail from the High Court. On May 7 last year, the ACCs investigating officer, deputy director Manjil Morshed, submitted the charge-sheet against Badi in the court. The charge-sheet said Badi had accumulated more than Tk. 6.3 crore disproportionate to the known sources of his income, and that he had concealed information from the ACC about assets worth more than Tk. 3.9 crore.