Rural News Dex: The High Court sentenced BNP senior vice chairman Tarek Rahman to seven years in prison after convicting money laundering cases and also ordered the trial court to issue a sentence against the fugitive Tariq Rahman.
The same case, the High Court upheld the sentence of seven years in prison for Gitas Uddin Al Mamun, but the fine imposed by the judicial court has fixed the fine of Tk 40 crore to Tk 20 crore.
The High Court bench of Justice M Inatetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain announced the Raat on Thursday (July 21).
The High Court has dismissed Gitas Uddin Al Mamun's appeal against the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against the acquittal of the trial court.
The court directed the ACC to take action against four people including Chairman Mohammad Motazzem Hossain of Hosaf Group and Chairman of Construction Construction Company Limited Khadija Islam to support money laundering.
The hearing of the appeal of the two appeals of ACC and Gitas Uddin Al Mamun will start on May 25. After the 12 working days hearing, the RAT announcement of the case will be kept pending on June 16.
Lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan heard on behalf of the ACC.
Tariq Rahman was absconding and was not a lawyer for him, but Barrister Fakhrul Islam on behalf of convicted Gitas Uddin Al Mamun at the hearing. took part
The High Court ordered him to surrender to the judicial court on January 19, 2014 after the ACC appeal against Tarek Rahman's acquittal case, but he has not surrendered till date.
After that, in view of the application of the ACC, the High Court ordered the publication of the newspaper notification for the surrender of the judicial court again on January 12.
After that, the High Court Division issued notification to Tariq Rahman on the issue of surrender and appeal to the High Court Division on January 20 and 21. The court also sent a summon notice of the two addresses (London and Dhaka) in the charge sheet.
On November 17, 2013, Tariq Rahman was acquitted by his friend Gitas Uddin Al Mamun in a money laundering case. The Triti Special Judge Court of Dhaka sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment.
In addition to the imprisonment of Ra't, Mamun was also fined Tk 40 crore, the court also ordered to impose 20 crore 41 lakh 25 thousand 613 rupees in favor of the state.
On December 5 of that year, the ACC appealed against this year. On January 19, 2014, Justice Nizamul Haque and Justice Md. Jahangir Hossain High Court Bench.
After that, on 03 January, the ACC filed a hearing in the High Court and ordered the issuance of a summon notice against Tarek on January 12 in view of this application.
After that, the newspaper issued the circular on the orders of the court and issued a notice through the Bangladesh High Commission in London, but he did not comply with the court order.
The case was filed by the ACC on October 26, 2009, and the case was filed in the court on July 6, 2010, accusing Tarek Rahman and Gitas Uddin Al Mamun.
On August 8, 2011, the court framed a charge against them in this case.
The hearing started on September 11, 2011.
The case was conducted by 13 witnesses, including the US intelligence agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Debra Leprovet.
The case has been alleged, Gitas Uddin Al Mamun took Tk 20 crore 41 lakh 25 thousand 843 from Khadija Islam, Chairman of Construction Construction Company Limited, for the installation of the proposed 80 MW power plant in Tongi.
Mamun then deposited the money in the City Bank NA of Capital Street in Singapore as a bank in his name, which has been alleged that Tariq Rahman spent Tk 3.78 million in the money.