Dhaka, Aug 13 A Dhaka court on Monday fixed Aug 30 as the date for hearing the petitions filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) asking the court to review its orders granting bail to five top officials of Destiny 2000 Limited in two money laundering cases.
The corruption watchdog's lawyer, Rafiqul Islam Mithu, filed the petitions earlier in the day in the Dhaka Senior Special Judge's Court.
He told bdnews24.com that Acting Judge Mohammad Aktaruzzaman of the Senior Special Judge's Court accepted the pleas and gave the date for hearing.
The ACC argued that according to the money laundering act, a magistrate's court did not have the authority to hear bail pleas, as it was the exclusive jurisdiction of the special judge's court. As a result, the petitions pointed out, the orders granting bail to the Destiny officials were illegal.
Seventeen officials of Destiny 2000 had surrendered in the court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and sought bails in the two cases. But hearing for the bail did not take place as the case documents were sent to the Dhaka Senior Special Judge's Court.
ACC lawyer Rafiqul Islam said that Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ataul Haq told them that hearing on the surrender pleas was not possible as the Senior Special Judge had summoned the case documents for hearing the revision petition.
On July 31, ACC Assistant Director Md Towfiqul Islam and Deputy Director Mozahar Ali Sardar had filed the two cases at the Kalabagan Police Station against 22 Destiny officials on charges of embezzling around Tk 35 billion of its clients and laundering the money.
The complainants alleged that the Destiny officials misappropriated the amount through Destiny Tree Plantation Project and Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society.
Towfiqul Islam had said the accused initially transferred the money to various non-profitable and inoperative organisations and later transferred money to their own bank accounts.
On Aug 6, the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate granted bails to five Destiny officials including its President Harun-Ar-Rashid and Managing Director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin after they surrendered to the court.
According to the ACC law, if the allegation of misappropriation is proved, the accused will have to pay the victims double the money they took from them.
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