A Dhaka court yesterday fixed January 27 for hearing a graft case against senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed and his brother Monjur Ahmed filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
ACC Deputy Director and investigation officer of the case Harunur Rashid filed a petition before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court to show Moudud arrested in the case and quiz him for three working days at the Jail gate.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order for hearing the petition on January 27 with the presence of the accused.
According to the case statement, on December 17 last year, ACC Deputy Director Harunur Rashid filed the case with Gulshan police against Moudud and his brother Manjur Ahmed for occupying government land worth Tk300 crore in Gulshan, abusing power.
The land belonged to Inje Maria Flaz and her husband M Ehsan, Pakistani citizens, who left the country before the Liberation War in 1971, the case statement said. The property, declared abandoned, was seized by Moudud Ahmed with forged documents using his position as a civil servant during 1978 to 2006.
Moudud Ahmed defended the property several times producing documents that his brother had rented the land from its previous owners.