ACC to appeal
The Anti Corruption Commission is likely to file
an appeal with the High Court within this week challenging a lower court
verdict that acquitted Tarique Rahman, in a money laundering case
involving Tk 20.41 crore.
In the appeal, the ACC will pray to the High Court to convict Tarique,
elder son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, on the laundering charge.
A Dhaka court on November 17 acquitted Tarique, who is now in London for
treatment, of the charge though it sentenced his business partner,
Giasuddin Al Mamun, to seven years in prison and fined him Tk 40 crore
in the same case.
A counsel for the ACC who has drafted the appeal said the lower court
has not fully considered the statement made by Debra Laprevotte, a
supervisory special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the
USA, before it.
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