DHAKA: The Supreme Court on Sunday stayed the bail of BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain till September 2 in a money laundering case.
A full bench of the appellate division led by Chief Justice M Mozammel Haque passed the order in response to the plea of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against the bail.
Mosharraf is now under treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital under the jail authorities.
On July 9, the High Court bench comprising of Justice M Rezaul Karim and Justice Gobinda Chandra Thakur passed the order of Mosharraf’s bail on three conditions.
The conditions include depositing his passport in the court, no foreign trip without court permission and no contact with the accusing finance institution.
Later, the defense lawyers claimed that there is no bar for his release as he got bail in the case.
On March 12, a team of ACC and Gulshan Thana Police jointly conducted a drive and raided Khandaker Mosharraf’s Gulshan residence and picked up him around 10:00pm for his alleged involvement in laundering money.
The anti-graft body further said the BNP leader deposited around Tk 9.53 crore illegally in two UK-based banks in 2001-2005 while he was minister of BNP-led government.
Mosharraf owned a huge amount of wealth during that period, ACC sources added.
BDST: 1550 HRS, JUL 20, 2014
