The Anti-Corruption Commission said it did not play a prejudiced role in issuing an arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman.
The chairman of the anti-graft body, Ghulam Rahman, Sunday told journalists it was a routine legal procedure and said everyone is equal in the eyes of law so the commission was not biased in this regard.
A money laundering case was filed against Tarique Rahman and Giasuddin Mamun on specific complaints lodged on October 26, 2009.
The charge sheet has already been submitted said the ACC chairman.
“The only difference is that the warrant was issued in Bangla, and now it has to be translated in English,” he said.
Responding to a question, the ACC chief said: “An ACC lawyer is conducting the case following proper legal procedures. No new instructions were given to the lawyer.
Whoever the accused is, everyone is equal before the law and the ACC is not partial to anyone.”
A Dhaka court Sunday issued an arrest warrant against the BNP senior vice-chairman in the money-laundering case and asked the government to take necessary steps to bring him back with the help of Interpol.
The case was filed with the city’s Cantonment police station on charges of “siphoning off Tk204.1m to Singapore” between 2003 and 2007.
The charge says the money was allegedly taken by Mamun as bribes from Khadiza Islam, director of Nirman Construction Ltd, for helping the company to get a contract to install an 80MW power plant in Tongi.
On August 8 last year, Tarique and Mamunwere indicted under the Money Laundering Act 2002 and the court issued an arrest warrant against Tarique.
Mamun allegedly deposited the money with a branch of Citibank in Singapore.
