A court here on Tuesday showed BNP stalwart Barrister Moudud Ahmed arrested in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for purportedly grabbing a government house in the city’s Gulshan area.
Magistrate M Mustafizur Rahman of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court passed the order responding to a plea submitted by ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid.
Passing the order, the court set January 27 whether it would allow the ACC to interrogate Moudud at jail gate for three days.
“The ACC placed a plea before the court to show Moudud arrested in the case so that he could be quizzed at jail gate and the court granted the plea,” ACC commissioner M Shahabuddin told reporters on in the afternoon.
On December 17, 2013, the ACC filed the case against Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed on charge of grabbing a government house worth about Tk 300 crore.
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 in Gulshan residential area to Mohammd Ehsan on December 30, 1961. Later, the land was registered against his wife’s name, Inge Maria Flatz, an Austrian national, in 1965. Ehsan was a Pakistani national.
As Ehsan and Flatz (both non-Bengalis) had 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 Ahmed allegedly 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 abusing his power, the FIR said.
Later, in March 1984, he made another power of attorney of Flatz against the name of Mohsin Darbar (an unknown person). According to the mutual legal assistance request (MLAR), Flatz died on March 30, 1985. But, Moudud made a sale deal between his bother Manzur Ahmed and Mohsin Darbar using the power of attorney of a late person.
The FIR said the BNP leader has been using the house since 1978 making different fake documents against his brother Manzur Ahmed’s name.
Source: UNB Connect
