Ex-judge's aides quizzed
A team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today started interrogating the bodyguard and driver of former judge Motahar Hossain who had acquitted BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case.
The anti-graft body is quizzing Badal Dewan and Sohrab Hossain, the bodyguard and driver of the retired judge respectively, to get information about their master's wealth.
Motahar left the country for Malaysia nearly two weeks before the ACC began the investigation against him on January 20, said Deputy Director of the graft watchdog Harun-ur-Rashid, who has been leading the probe.
The ACC began the inquiry on receiving graft allegations against the retired judge, in the first week of this month, of amassing huge movable and immovable wealth illegally and laundering money abroad during his service term, Rashid said.
The three-member team led by Rashid started the quizzing at ACC's Segunbagicha office in the capital around 10:00am today, ACC sources said.
Earlier on January 23, the ACC team interrogated two stenographers -- Abul Hossain of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 and Nurul Islam Mollah of the Special Judges Court-3 -- in Dhaka. Motahar had served as a judge at these courts.
Hossain, when serving as a judge of a special tribunal, dropped the charges against Tarique, elder son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, of involvement in the laundering of Tk 20.41 crore to Singapore on November 17 last year.
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