The Supreme Court has stayed BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain’s bail, granted by the High Court in a money laundering case, for two weeks.
The four-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha issued the order yesterday after hearing a plea by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to scrap the bail.
The court also asked the ACC to file a leave-to-appeal petition within two weeks.
“Now the BNP senior leader will not be released from jail,” said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.
The ACC filed the case in February last year, accusing Mosharraf of siphoning off around Tk9 crore while serving as health and family welfare minister during the 2001-2006 regime of BNP-led alliance government and sending the money to Lloyd’s TSB Offshore Private Bank in the UK.
The High Court granted permanent bail to him on August 18 this year on condition that he had to deposit his passport to a lower court.
The court ordered him not to go abroad without its permission and not to withdraw the money from the UK bank until the disposal of the case.
