DHAKA, April 24, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today sentenced BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s friend and business partner Gias Uddin Al Mamun to seven-year imprisonment and fined Taka 12 crore in a money laundering case while he is already serving in jail term in another graft charge.
Judge Abu Syed Dilzar Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge Court-3 pronounced the judgement in presence of Mamun at around 12.38 pm.
“The accused has been sentenced to seven-year imprisonment and fined Taka 12 crore under section 13 (2) of Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2002 as the allegations brought against him by the state/ Anti-Corruption Commission were proved,” the judgement said.
The court also ordered to seize Mamun’s GBP 4, 18,853.47 kept in different accounts with Netwest Bank, Aldwych Branch, London, under state exchequer.
It also ordered authorities concerned to take appropriate actions to bring the said money back to Bangladesh.
Police produced Mamun at the courtroom at around 11am and he was boot-faced all along during the pronouncement of the judgement, occasionally smiling.
The court on April 8 set today to pronounce judgement in the case as both prosecution and defence concluded their arguments on that day.
According to the case documents, Mamun demanded commission from BTL and Glob Pharmaceuticals chairman M Shahzad Ali as the latter won tender for modernizing signal work for Bangladesh Railway. Mamun threatened him, if he failed to give him the commission, Ali’s work order will be canceled.
Mamun took Taka 6, 01, 57,762 from Ali from 2003 to 2006 and sent the money to London.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on September 22, 2011, filed the case against Mamun with capital’s Cantonment Police Station and filed charge sheet in the case on April 29, 2012.
A total of 10 prosecution witnesses testified in the case.
Mamun is in jail since his arrest on January 30, 2007, and he has already been sentenced to seven-year imprisonment in another money-laundering case in 2013. Mamun has also been fined Taka 40 crore in that case.