Dhaka Bureau: Managing Director (MD) of the institution in a case filed by the ACC in connection with the Hallmark scam. The court sentenced Tanveer Mahmood, his wife, and group chairman Jasmin Islam to life imprisonment.
On Tuesday (March 19), the judge of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court, Abul Kashem, gave this verdict.
On January 28 of this year, the judge of Dhaka Special Judge Court-1, Abul Kashem, fixed February 28 as the date for pronouncing the verdict after presenting the arguments of the state and the accused. But on that day, ACC lawyer Mir Ahmed Salam applied for taking the testimony of two magistrates after removing the case from the judgment, and the court granted it.
The court then fixed March 4 for hearing the case. On March 4, two Metropolitan Magistrates of Dhaka, Saifur Rahman and Keshab Roy Chowdhury, testified in court. After their testimony on this day, March 12 was fixed for the presentation of arguments. After presenting the arguments of the state and the accused on March 12, the judge set March 19 as the date for pronouncing the verdict.
On October 4, 2012, the ACC filed a case against the accused in the Ramna police station of the capital on charges of fraud, forgery, embezzlement of money, abuse of power in collusion with each other, misappropriation of money, and smuggling.
