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Gatco Graft Case

Arrest warrants reach police stations

Staff Correspondent
• Arrest warrants against the 12 : 'absconding' accused in the Gatco ; graft case reached the police sta-• tions concerned in the city last ; night, said policesources.
Officers-in-charge however : declined to say anything about the • matter.
Earlier on Thursday, a Dhaka : court issued the warrants against the 12 Including former BNP min-■ isters M Sai fur Rahman, Abdul ; Mannan Bhuiyan, MK Anwar, M '. Shamsul Islam and Amir Khasru • Mahmud Chowdhury, and Jamaat • Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
Contacted yesterday afternoon. : none of the police officials could • say if the accused would be
arrested on receipt of the warrants or would be allowed to surrender before the court during the next hearing of the case due on May 22.
Meanwhile, family members of Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan told reporters on Friday that he may surrender before the court today if his lawyers suggest.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on May 13 pressed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and 22 others in the graft case.
Of those charge-sheeted. Khaleda, Koko, former health minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain,
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former chief finance and accounts officer Ahmed Abul Qashem, former CPA chairman Commodore (retd) Zulfiqur Ali. former CPA chairman AMM Shahadat Hossain, former CPA directors AM Sanwar Hossain, Luthful Kabir, Gatco managing director (MD) Syed Galib Ahmed, Gatco director Syed Tanvir Ahmed, and Akbar's son Ismail Hossain Simon are behind bars while the rest were shown absconding.
The other fugitive accused are former shipping secretary Zulfikar Haider Chowdhury, Gatco directors AKM Musa Kajol, Ehsan Yusuf, Shahjahan M Hasib, former member of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) AK Rashid Uddin Ahmed and former shipping minister and late BNP leader Col (retd) Akbar Hossain's wife Jah anara Ansar.
Sources said arrest warrants for BNP leaders Saifur, Bhuiyan, Shamsul Islam and Amir Khasru and Gatco official Musa Kajol were dispatched to Gulshan Police Station while those for Nizami, MK z\nwar, Ehsan, Zulfikar. Jahanara, Rashiduddin and Hasib were sent to Ramna, New Market. Khilgaon, Kafrul, Dhanmondi and Uttara police stations.
Saifur, who is also the top leader of the pro-reform BNP faction, is in Singapore now for treatment. Amir Khasru left the country immediately after the army-led joint forces launched the crackdown on corruptionsuspects.