ACC submits charge sheet against Tarique, wife, mother-in-law
Appeals to the court for issuing warrants for arrest of Tarique’s wife, mother-in-law
Courtesy New Age 1/4/08
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The Anti-Corruption Commi-ssion on Monday submitted a charge sheet against former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s detained eldest son Tarique Rahman and his wife and mother-in-law for amassing illegal wealth and hiding information of assets in his wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The investigation officer of the case, ACC assistant director Taufiqul Islam filed the charge sheet with the court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate of
He also appealed to the court for issuing warrants for arrest of Tarique’s wife Zubaida Rahman and mother-in-law Syeda Iqbalmand Banu. The magistrate, however, did not pass any order in this regard.
The case will be transferred to the court of metropolitan sessions’ judge,
This is the first charge sheet filed against Tarique, who faces about a dozen corruption and criminal cases. Fifty-seven prosecution witnesses were named in the charge sheet.
In the charge sheet, the investigation officer pressed charges against Tarique, also the senior joint secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, for amassing wealth of Tk 2,74,93,087 beyond his known sources of income and hiding assets of Tk 2,16,48,087 in his wealth statement submitted to the commission.
He pressed charges against Zubaida and Iqbalmand for abetting Tarique in hiding the assets by submitting false documents and trying their best to prove that assets of Tk 35 lakh out of Tarique’s total ill-gotten wealth were earned by them legally.
The charges against Tarique are punishable with imprisonment for 13 years and fine. If the charges are proved, the ill-gotten assets might also be confiscated.
ACC deputy director Zahirul Huda filed the case with the Kafrul police on September 26, 2007, accusing Tarique of acquiring illegal wealth of Tk 4.82 crore and concealing information of property worth more than Tk 4.23 crore in his wealth statement.
Tarique submitted his wealth statement to the commission on June 10, 2007 through the jail authorities, claiming to own assets of Tk 1.37 crore in his name and in the names of his wife and daughter.
Taufiqul Islam investigated the case and filed the investigation report with the commission on January 13, 2008.
The army-led joint forces arrested Tarique at his mother’s house in
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