A Dhaka court has again rejected the bail petition of Cox’s Bazar Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for gaining wealth beyond the known source of income.
Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Mohammad Johirul Hoque passed the order after the bail petition hearing on Thursday afternoon.
Bodi’s lawyer Mahfuzur Rahman Likhon had filed a bail petition on October 13.
On August 21, ACC Assistant Director Md Abdus Sobhan filed three cases against Bodi and two other former state ministers with Ramna police station.
In February this year, the ACC sought a statement of wealth from Bodi where he showed that his family owned tangible and intangible assets worth a little over Tk5.20 crore.
However, the income tax return that he submitted in November 2013 shows that the value of their assets was more than Tk16.06 crore.
Although he told the ACC in the wealth statement that he had acquired the assets with income generated from his “export-import” business, he could not produce any valid document when investigators went to him. The ACC thinks that he has hidden assets worth more than Tk10 crore.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
