Graft cases against Moudud, Mosharraf to continue: SC

FE Team | Published: May 22, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

The Supreme Court (SC) turned down Wednesday the pleas of BNP standing committee members Barrister Moudud Ahmed and Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain to quash the trial proceedings against them in two graft cases, reports UNB.
A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain, also overruled a High Court (HC) order quashing trial proceedings against former BNP MP and Partex Group chairman MA Hashem in another graft case.
With the Appellate Division orders, there is no bar to the continuation of the trial proceedings of the three cases filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) against them, said ACC lawyer M Khurshid Alam Khan.
On September 16, 2007, the ACC filed a case against Moudud with Gulshan thana on charge of amassing wealth worth Tk 73,848,287 from beyond known sources and concealing information of assets to the tune of Tk 44,037,375.
The graft watchdog filed the other case against Dr Mosharraf with Ramna thana on January 10, 2008, for acquiring illegal wealth worth Tk 120 million and concealing information of wealth worth Tk 30 million.
The ACC pressed charges against the two BNP leaders in 2008. In 2012, the HC turned down their petitions to quash the trial proceedings.
On the other hand, the ACC filed the case against MA Hashem with Ramna thana on December 5, 2007. The chargesheet was submitted against him in 2008.
Following an appeal, the HC in 2012 quashed the trial proceedings.
Later, Moudud, Dr Mosharraf and ACC moved the SC against the HC orders in the three cases.
Another report adds: The ACC has approved the submission of a chargesheet against BNP stalwart Barrister Moudud Ahmed and his brother in a case of grabbing a house.
The commission at its regular meeting Wednesday approved the proposal to submit chargesheet against them, ACC commissioner M Shahabuddin told reporters at his office in the afternoon.
On December 17, 2013, ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid filed the case against Moudud and his brother Manzur Ahmed, now living in London, with Gulshan thana for allegedly grabbing a government house worth about Tk 3.0 billion.
According to the first information report (FIR), the Dhaka Improvement Trust, established in 1956 (now renamed as Rajuk), handed over a plot of one bigha and 14 katha located in Gulshan housing area to Mohammad Ehsan on December 30, 1961. Later, the land was registered against his wife's name, Inge Maria Flatz, in 1965.
As Ehsan and Flatz (both non-Bengalis) left the country before the announcement of the list of government abandoned houses by the then Ministry of Cabinet Affairs on January 21, 1972, the plot was included in the list of abandoned houses.
In August 1973, Moudud prepared a 'fake' power of attorney of Maria Flatz to grab the land and used it to serve his own interest. Since then, Moudud had been living in the house showing himself as a tenant of Maria Flatz.
When Moudud was holding different posts as minister and deputy prime minister and prime minister during 1978-1989, he tried to grab the house misusing his power, the FIR said.