The Anti-Corruption Commission has submitted charge sheet against BNP Standing Committee member Moudud Ahmed and his brother on charge of grabbing a government land worth about Tk300 crore.
ACC Deputy Director Harun-ur-Rashid, also the investigation officer of the case submitted the charge sheet with the office of General Recording Officer (GRO) of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Monday afternoon.
After submitting the charge sheet, Harun-ur-Rashid told the Dhaka tribune: “Moudud and his brother were found guilty during the ACC investigation. Action will be taken against them as per the rule.”
He said a total of 20 people have been made the prosecution witness.
Earlier on Wednesday, the ACC authority approved the charge sheet against the duo.
Following a five-month-long investigation, the ACC has found Moudud Ahmed and his brother Monjur Ahmed, now living in London, responsible for occupying government property valued Tk300 crore since 1978 through different fake documents and abusing power, an ACC official said.
On December 17 last year, the ACC filed a case against the duo in this regard.
The case stated that the house in the capital’s Gulshan area belongs to Mohammad Ehsan and his wife Inze Maria Flatz, two Pakistani nationals who left the country before the 1971 Liberation War.
Following their departure, the house on 1.13bigha (0.374 acre) land on Gulshan Avenue was included in the list of government’s abandoned properties on January 21, 1972.
On August 2, 1973, Moudud prepared a fake power of attorney of Maria Flatz to grab the land and used it to gain his own interest. Since then, he had been living in the house showing himself as a tenant of Maria Flatz, the case document says.
While holding different posts as minister during 1978-2006, Moudud tried to grab the house misusing his power. He made the fake documents in the name of his expatriate brother Manzur Ahmed.
