Trackback URL
Download PDF A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against nine accused including former BNP ministers M Saifur Rahman, Aminul Haque and state minister AKM Mosharraf Hossain and former Jamaat minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid in Barapukuria coalmine graft case.
The court directed BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Jamaat-e Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, former BNP ministers Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, M Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar, now on bail in the case, to appear before it on October 12.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Azizul Haque also asked the jail authorities to produce two other accused in the case — detained former BNP ministers Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Altaf Hossain Choudhury– before the court on the same day.
Accepting the charge sheet in the case submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday, the court passed the order.
The other five accused, against whom arrest warrants were issued, are former acting secretary to the energy and mineral resources ministry Nazrul Islam, former Petrobangla chairman SR Osmani, former Petrobangla director Mainul Ahsan, former managing director of Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd (BCMCL) Sirajul Islam, and Hosaf Group Chairman Moazzem Hossain.
Earlier on September 10, the High Court (HC) granted Khaleda four months’ bail in this case. But Mannan Bhuiyan, Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar got bail from the same court till framing of charges against them.
ACC Deputy Director Abul Kashem Fakir, who had reinvestigated the case taking over from ACC Deputy Director Monirul Huq, on Sunday submitted to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court charge sheet against the 16 accused in the case, showing 34 people as prosecution witnesses.
The investigation officer (IO) also requested showing Altaf Hossain Choudhury and Khandker Mosharraf Hossain arrested in Barapukuria case as they are already arrested in other cases but yet to be shown arrested in this case.
On September 25, the ACC approved the charge sheet against Khaleda and the other accused in connection with illegally awarding a contract for operating Barapukuria coalmine to a Chinese company.
In the charge sheet, the IO mentioned that the accused caused a loss of about Tk 159 crore to the public exchequer by illegally awarding the contract to China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC), abusing power.
The IO also said the charges brought against them were primarily proven, and they should be brought to trial.
ACC Assistant Director Shamsul Alam filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station in Dhaka on February 26 this year.
The IO showed Saifur, Nizami, Mojahid, Aminul Haque, AKM Mosharraf, Nazrul Islam, SR Osmani, Mainul Ahsan, Sirajul Islam, and Moazzem Hossain as fugitives in the case.
He appealed to the court to issue arrest warrants against them, and orders to confiscate their properties as they did not obtain bail from any court.
Comments are not moderated and only expresses personal views of visitors. BangladeshNews.com.bd is not responsible for commets posted by visitors.
Leave a Reply