The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday approved the submission of four charge sheets in four corruption cases filed against high-profile people.
The accused in the cases are former BNP minister Mirza Abbas, former Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman, former managing director of Sonali Bank Muhammad Tahmilur Rahman and Munshiganj Awami League President Mohammad Mohiuddin.
The commission also approved the filing of three corruption cases against three people including Awami League presidium member Kazi Zafarullah.
Col Hanif Iqbal, director general (admin) of the ACC, during a press briefing yesterday gave some details about the charges but did not say when the charge sheets would be submitted before the courts concerned or when the cases would be filed.
He said the commission authorised the charge-sheet submission against Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas in connection with amassing wealth worth over Tk 5.67 crore beyond their known sources of income.
The commission is also suing them for concealing information about their wealth worth over Tk 39 lakh in their wealth statement submitted to the ACC in February last year.
Abbas's name was in the first list of 50 high-profile corruption suspects whom the ACC asked to submit wealth statements in February, 2007.
Joint forces arrested Abbas when he went to the ACC to submit his wealth statement and since then he has been in jail. Later, the ACC filed a graft case against Abbas and his wife with Ramna Police Station in connection with amassing wealth illegally.
The ACC sued absconding Shamim Osman, who was also in the first list, September last year in connection with accumulating wealth through illegal means. His wife is also accused in the case.
The ACC yesterday gave consent to the submission of a charge sheet accusing them of amassing wealth worth over Tk 1.28 crore beyond their known sources of income. The ACC filed the case with Fatullah Police Station.
The commission is also suing them for making fake donations worth over Tk 99 lakh.
The ACC approved the submission of charge sheet against former Sonali bank boss Tahmilur Rahman and his wife Shamima Begum in connection with a case filed for amassing wealth worth over Tk 1.18 crore beyond their known sources of income.
The commission is also suing them for concealing information about their wealth worth over Tk 77 lakh in the wealth statement submitted to the ACC. It filed the case with Ramna Police Station December last year.
Hanif said the ACC authorised the submission of a charge sheet against Munshiganj Awami League leader Mohiuddin accusing him of amassing wealth worth over Tk 3.74 crore beyond his known sources of income.
It is also suing him for concealing information about his wealth worth over Tk 1.25 crore in the wealth statement submitted to the ACC.
The case was filed with Mohammadpur Police Station in Dhaka January last.
CASE FILING APPROVALS
The ACC yesterday approved the filing of a case against Awami League top-level leader Kazi Zafarullah in connection with earning and transferring Tk 6.3 crore violating the Money Laundering Prevention Ordinance, 2007.
It also authorised the filing of a case against AKM Foyzur Rahman, ex-chief engineer of Roads and High Department, for hoarding wealth worth over Tk 9.35 crore beyond his known sources of income and concealing information about wealth worth over Tk 97 lakh in his wealth statement.
The commission gave consent to filing of a case against Mohammad Hedayet Ullah, son of ex-Awami League lawmaker AKM Rahmat Ullah, in connection with accumulating wealth worth over Tk 4 crore beyond his known sources of income. The ACC say that Hedayet concealed information about wealth worth over Tk 4 lakh in his wealth statement.
The commission also authorised the issuance of a notice to Monjurul Islam Babul, chairman of Islam Group, asking him to submit his wealth statement.