বুধবার, ২৬ মার্চ ২০২৫, ০২:২৫ অপরাহ্ন
A Dhaka court today ordered police to confiscate moveable (bank accounts) and immovable (land-related) properties of BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court passed the order and directed the officer-in-charge of Cantonment Police Station to submit a progress report on the implementation of the order by January 19.
The same court on November 1 last year had issued arrest warrants against the duo after accepting the charges brought against them.
On June 26 last year, the High Court declared Tarique and Zubaida “fugitives” and rejected their writ petitions challenging the filing of the graft case. The HC also withdrew a stay order on the case filed during the caretaker government in 2007 and directed the lower court concerned to complete the trial proceedings as soon as possible.
Trial proceedings against Tarique’s mother-in-law Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu were rescinded.
Tarique and Zubaida have been in London since 2008.
On September 26, 2007, the anti-graft body filed the case with Kafrul Police Station against Tarique, his wife Zubaida and her mother Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu for amassing assets worth Tk 4.82 crore through illegal means and concealing the information of Tk 2.16 crore in their wealth statements.
The investigation officer of the case pressed charges against the three with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, Dhaka, on March 31, 2009.
Earlier, Tarique was sentenced to life in jail in the August 21 grenade attack cases. He was also sentenced on different terms of punishment in two other cases, including the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
