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Top court upholds HC order scrapping Samrat’s bail

He has been accused of laundering Tk195 crore

Update : 10 Aug 2022, 12:11 PM

The Appellate Division has upheld a High Court order that scrapped the bail of expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat. 

An Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique delivered the order Wednesday. 

The recent order has closed the doors for Samrat getting out of prison. 

On May 18, the High Court scrapped Samrat’s bail plea following an Anti Corruption Commission plea filed on May 16, challenging the bail order. 

On May 11, a lower court granted him bail on condition that Samrat cannot leave the country without the permission of the court, has to submit his passport and also his health reports on the designated dates.

Previously, the same court had turned down his bail plea in the corruption case filed by the ACC twice, on April 28 and April 13.

Samrat secured bail in a drugs case on April 11 and in an arms case and a money laundering case on April 10.

The expelled Jubo League leader has been undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) since November 24 last year. 

On October 6, 2019, RAB detained Samrat and his associate Enamul Haque Arman from Chauddagram in Comilla.

RAB raided his Kakrail office later that day, seizing a huge quantity of foreign liquor, pistols and two kangaroo hides.

He was later sentenced by a mobile court to six months in prison under the Wildlife Conservation Act.

On October 7, Abdul Khaleque, deputy assistant director of RAB-1, lodged two complaints against Samrat at Ramna police station under the arms and the narcotics acts. Arman was also accused in the narcotics case.

On November 4, Shekhar Chandra Mallik, a sub-inspector, submitted a chargesheet against Samrat in the arms case.

On November 12, the ACC lodged a complaint against him for acquiring assets worth Tk2.94 crore beyond his known sources of income.

On September 12, 2020, Rashedur Rahman, a sub-inspector of the CID, registered a case against him at Ramna police station for laundering Tk195 crore to Malaysia and Singapore.

Lastly, on November 26 last year, the investigating officer in the case, Jahangir Alam, submitted a chargesheet in court.


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