A Dhaka court today (August 29) acquitted BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas in two cases filed by Anti-Corruption Commission.

Two separate special judge court in Dhaka made this judgment.

The judge of the Special Judge Court-6 Masood Parvez acquitted Abbas in charges of concealment of wealth information and acquisition of illegal wealth.

On 16 August 2007, ACC Deputy Director Md. Shafiul Alam filed the cases. 

In the charge sheet, Mirza Abbas was accused of illegally acquiring assets of Tk 7 crore 54 lakh 32 thousand 290 and concealing information of assets of Tk 57 lakh 26 thousand 571.

After the investigation, on May 24, 2008, the investigating officer of the case, Deputy Director of the ACC Khairul Huda submitted the charge sheet to the court. 

The trial began on June 16, 2008. 

The court accepted the testimony of 24 people in the trial. Later, 24 people were testified on behalf of the ACC in the case. Meanwhile, 5 people testified in favour of Abbas.

On the other hand, ACC officer Kausoli Mir Ahmed Ali Salam applied for the withdrawal of another case filed by ACC against Mirza Abbas and three others for plot allotment irregularities.

Later, Judge Rabiul Alam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 acquitted them by granting the bail plea.

The other two accused who were acquitted are former Member of Parliament Ali Asghar Lobi and government official Mahfuzul Islam.

According to case statement, Mirza Abbas allotted 19.44 katha of land in Tejgaon industrial area to a company named Pacific Chemicals in 2006 when he was the Minister of Housing and Public Works.

Former BNP MP Ali Asghar Lobi and a government official named Mahfuzul Islam allocated this plot through irregularities.

The then Deputy Director of ACC Syed Iqbal Hossain filed a case on July 15, 2007 at Shahbag police station. On February 11 of the following year, he framed charges against the accused and ordered the trial to begin.

BDST: 1631 HRS, AUGUST 29, 2024
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