AKM Mosharraf to be quizzed for graft

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate detained former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain at jail gate in connection with the Tk 68.56 lakh corruption case.
Meantime, detained Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim was shown arrested in a case filed for amassing wealth illegally and concealing wealth statement from the commission.
CASE AGAINST MOSHARRAF
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani passed the order after ACC Deputy Director Golam Shahriar Chowdhury, also the investigation officer (IO), submitted a petition for showing him arrested in the case and interrogating him at jail gate.
The ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station against the former lawmaker on August 14 this year for accumulating wealth worth Tk 68.56 lakh illegally and concealing information about his assets worth 69.33 lakh from the commission.
The joint forces arrested Mosharraf, also an accused in Gatco, Niko and Barapukuria Coal Mine scam cases, on February 8 last year at his Mymensingh residence.
CASE AGAINST SELIM
The same court yesterday passed the order after ACC Assistant Director Niru Shamsunnahar, also the IO of the case, submitted a petition for showing Selim arrested in the case.
The commission filed the case with Ramna Police Station against former health minister and AL leader Selim on April 23 this year for amassing wealth worth Tk 3.38 crore illegally and concealing information about his wealth worth Tk 22.39 lakh from the ACC.
Selim submitted his wealth statement to the ACC on July 22, last year saying that he has wealth worth Tk 5,13,98,000.