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Download PDF Police yesterday arrested retired army chief Gen Mustafizur Rahman, an accused in the MiG-29 purchase scam case, at a city hospital where he has been undergoing treatment.
He, however, is still being treated at the Apollo Hospitals at Bashundhara in the city under police custody.
“We have executed an arrest warrant issued against him by a court recently,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Naim Ahmed told The Daily Star.
Shahnaz, daughter of Mustafizur, told The Daily Star last night that a team of police has been deployed outside her father’s room since yesterday noon. He was admitted to the hospital on May 20 with chest pains.
A special court set up on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises issued the warrant on May 20 as Mustafizur Rahman failed to appear before the court on different dates.
Detained former premier Sheikh Hasina and six others including the former army chief are accused in the case.
The now defunct bureau of anti-corruption filed the case on December 11, 2001 with Tejgaon Police Station.
Between 1996 and 2001, when Hasina was the premier, eight MiG-29 fighter planes were procured from Russia for Bangladesh Air Force.
In 2003, charges were pressed against Hasina and six others in the MiG-29 purchase scam case.
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