The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday quizzed former MP Barrister Ziaur Rahman Khan in connection with the house grabbing case filed against BNP stalwart Barrister Moudud Ahmed.
ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid interrogated him for three hours from 10 am at the Commission’s head office here, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
He said as Barrister Ziaur was Rajuk’s legal adviser in 1989 when Moudud Ahmed grabbed a government house, he was interrogated to take his statement as part of the investigation into the case.
On December 17, 2013, the ACC filed a case against Barrister Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed, now living in London, on charge of grabbing a government house worth about Tk 300 crore at Gulshan.
According to the first information report (FIR), the Dhaka Improvement Trust, established in 1956 (now renamed as Rajuk), handed over a plot of one bigha and 14 katha located in Gulshan housing area to Mohammd Ehsan on December 30, 1961. Later, the land was registered against his wife’s name, Inge Maria Flatz, in 1965.
As Ehsan and Flatz (both non-Bengalis) left the country before the announcement of the list of government abandoned houses (the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs) on January 21, 1972, the plot was included in the list of abandoned houses.
In August 1973, Moudud prepared a fake power of attorney of Maria Flatz to grab the land and used it to gain his own interest. Since then, Moudud had been living in the house showing himself as a tenant of Maria Flatz.
When Moudud was holding different posts as minister and deputy prime minister and prime minister during 1978-1989, he tried to grab the house misusing his power, the FIR said.
Later, the BNP leader grabbed the house making different fake documents against his brother Manzur’s name, according to the FIR.
Source: UNB Connect