ACC okays charge sheet against Tarique, wife

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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday approved submitting charge sheet against BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman and mother-in-law Iqbalmand Banu in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth and hiding wealth information.

Following investigation, the watchdog decided to charge him with concealing wealth worth Tk 2,16,48,087 in his statement to the ACC and amassing assets of Tk 2,74,93,087 beyond known sources of his income.

Meantime, the ACC yesterday filed a case with Ramna Police Station against former Awami League lawmaker AKM Rahmatullah, his wife Hamida Rahmatullah and their son Safayet Ullah on charges of amassing Tk 5.08 crore wealth beyond known sources of income and concealing information about assets worth over Tk 1.56 crore.

In the first information report, Tarique was accused of illegally making a fortune of 4.82 crore and concealing Tk 4.23 crore property to the watchdog.

The ACC move comes in the wake of widespread criticism over the slow progress of the case as no decision about it was taken six months into its filing on September 26 last year.

Dr Zubaida and her mother Iqbalmand are accused of abetting Tarique in concealing information on wealth.

ACC Director General (Admin) Col Hanif Iqbal informed reporters about the anti-graft body’s approving the charge sheet.

He said if necessary the commission would press supplementary charge sheets in the case or file new cases against Tarique as reporters questioned him about the amount of money the BNP leader is charged with earning illegally when there are even bigger corruption allegations against him.

It has taken two months for the ACC to give the nod to submit the charge sheet after the investigation officer reported his findings in January.

Tarique handed in his wealth report to the anti-graft body on June 10 through the jail authorities, showing that he, his wife and their daughters had a property of Tk 1.37 crore.

The joint forces arrested him on March 7 last year. He has since been behind bars.

Tarique has 11 other extortion and deception cases against him, but none of the cases has yet come to trial.

The ACC yesterday filed another case against former managing director of Rural Power Company Ltd (RPCL) with Dhanmondi Police Station on charges of abuse of power and deception, causing a loss of Tk 27,82320 to RPCL.

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