Charge sheets in four cases against VIPs, dependants filed

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Charge-sheets in four graft cases against two former junior ministers, ex-premier Khaleda Zia's political secretary Harris Chowdhury and an Awami League Advisory Committee member were submitted Sunday in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, as trial of high-profile corruption suspects apparently accelerated, reports UNB.
The Anti-Corruption Commission submitted three charge-sheets in the cases against Khaleda Zia's political secretary Harris Chowdhury and his brother-in-law, former state minister for Communications Salahuddin Ahmed among five others, and former deputy minister for Land Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu and his wife.
Gulshan Thana police submitted the charge-sheet in the other case filed against AL Advisory Committee member Salman F Rahman.
The first case, filed on March 25 this year against Harris Chowdhury and his brother-in-law Ruhul Amin, says the once-mighty man in the PM's office, misusing his power during the immediate-past BNP regime, gave Ruhul Amin authority to operate the state-owned National Tea Company.
The anti-graft watchdog, ACC, filed the second case against five persons, including former state minister Salahuddin Ahmed, his wife and son, for amassing Tk 8,68,06,588 "without known sources".
In another case, filed against Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, the ACC said the former state minister acquired Tk 84,437,108 without known sources of income thereof.
Meanwhile, Gulshan police sued AL Advisory Committee member and business tycoon Salman F Rahman under the Money Laundering Act.
The case statement says that the joint forces, during a raid in the house of the industrialist, found huge amounts of foreign currencies. "But, he couldn't show any legal document on possessing the currencies."
They are in a big lot of people of high places being prosecuted under the ongoing purge launched by the army-supported interim regime against serious crime and corruption.