The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday informed the High Court (HC) that notices regarding surrender and appeal in a money laundering case, have been sent to Dhaka and London addresses of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Tarique
Rahman.
After hearing the plea, the High Court division bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain set Thursday to pass further order in the case.
“I have told the court that advertisements regarding his surrender and appeal have been published in two widely circulated dailies and summons have been sent to his Dhaka and London addresses,” ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan told reporters yesterday.
The High Court on January 12 asked for issuing summon against Tarique, BNP senior vice president, in this case.
A special judge’s court on November 17, 2013, cleared the BNP leader from the case, involving more than 200mn taka.
The ACC filed the appeal on December 5, 2013, and the High Court on January 19, 2014, accepted the appeal for hearing and asked the accused to
surrender before the trial court.
The anti-graft watchdog filed the case against Tarique and his business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun in October 2009 for siphoning off the money to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.
On November 17, 2013, a Dhaka court acquitted Tarique and sentenced Mamun to seven years in jail and fined him 400mn taka in the case.