ACC permitted to quiz Salman at jail gate

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate detained Awami League leader Salman F Rahman at the jail gate in connection with the case filed against him for misappropriating Tk 158.67 crore through forged documents.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani passed the order after investigating officer ACC Assistant Director Ashraful Islam submitted a petition to interrogate Salman.
Beximco Group Chairman Sohel F Rahman and four others were also accused in the case.
On September 5 last year, ACC Assistant Commissioner Mahbubul Alam filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on charge of withdrawing over Tk 158.67 crore from IFIC Bank in the name of Beximco Group through cheating and forgery.
Other accused in the case are former managing director of IFIC Bank Ataul Haque, ex-manager of IFIC Bank's Motijheel branch Asab-ud-Doula and directors of Beximco Holdings Ltd Iqbal Ahmed and MA Qashem.
In the case, the complainant said the accused in connivance with each other took out the amount as loans submitting seven wills of 130.42 acres of land of Beximco Properties Development Management and showing false wills of Beximco Holdings as equitable mortgage. The accused also showed 112 fake bank accounts of the organisations.