The High Court docket has brushed off the seven-three hundred and sixty five days penal complex sentence and acquitted businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun in a case filed over allegations of cash laundering throughout the interval of the 1/11 government or caretaker government.
The verdict turned into once pronounced by a HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain on the present time (5 December).
Lawyers Omar Sadat and Sabbir Hamza stood for the petitioner in the court, while attorney Asif Hasan represented the Anti-Corruption Commission.
ACC had filed the case with Cantonment police space in the capital on 22 September 2011.
In line with the case yell, Chairman of BTL and Globe Pharmaceuticals M Shahzad Ali ragged to be the Bangladeshi agent of a contractor firm basically based mostly in The Netherlands.
Shahjad had bought the soft of a railway signaling modernisation mission of the Dutch company. Gias Uddin requested for an illegal commission throughout the finalisation of the work picture of that mission in 2003 and threatened to damage the work picture upon no longer receiving the commission, the case yell stated.
Shahjad deposited Tk6,01,57,762 crore into Gias Uddin’s account with London’s Natwest Bank in 2004, the case yell added.
On 24 April 2019, Settle on Aby Syed Diljar Hossain of Dhaka’s Special Settle on’s Court docket-3 sentenced Gias Uddin to seven years in penal complex on this case and fined him Tk12 crore.
Moreover, the court additionally ordered to confiscate Tk6.01 crore expose in Gias Uddin’s account with Natwest Bank.
Later, Gias Uddin filed an allure with the HC on this regard. As of late’s verdict came after a hearing on this allure.
Gias Uddin turned into once arrested on 30 January 2007. He turned into once released from penal complex on 6 August this three hundred and sixty five days.
On 26 April 2008, Deputy Director of ACC Md Ibrahim filed a mark sheet in opposition to Gias Uddin.
The court denied Gias Uddin’s bail plea and framed charges in opposition to him on 31 October 2008.
For the duration of the trial, the court took statements from nine out of 10 witnesses in the case.
