The Appellate Division has acquitted BNP’s acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, and businessman Gias Uddin Al Mamun from their seven-year sentences in a money laundering case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
On Thursday (March 6), a bench led by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed granted the verdict after accepting Mamun’s appeal against the High Court ruling.
Senior lawyer Asif Hasan represented the ACC, while lawyers S.M. Shahjahan, Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain, and Sabbir Hamza Chowdhury defended the appeal.
The case was initially filed by the ACC on October 26, 2009, at Cantonment Police Station, and a charge sheet was submitted in 2010, accusing Tarique Rahman and Mamun of laundering over 204 million BDT to Singapore.
In 2013, a special court acquitted Tarique Rahman but sentenced Mamun to seven years in prison with a BDT 400 million fine. In 2016, the High Court overturned the acquittal, sentencing Rahman to seven years and upholding Mamun’s conviction.
Rahman has been residing in the UK since 2008. Over the years, he has been acquitted in nearly 40 cases.
