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Tarique's mother-in-law seeks time to provide wealth info to ACC

Two court office assistants quizzed over graft allegation against ex-judge Motahar; AL lawmaker's tax documents seized

Staff Correspondent
Lawyers of Syeda Iqbalmand Banu, mother-in-law of BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman, yesterday requested the Anti-Corruption Commission to issue a fresh notice for submission of Banu's wealth statement.
The commission, however, is resolute about suing her for non-compliance. Talking to The Daily Star, ACC Chairman Badiuzzaman said, "There is no way we can give (her) more time. The submission deadline expired a long time ago."
After meeting the ACC chairman at his office in the capital, Banu's counsels Barrister Nasiruddin Ahmed Wasim and Mohammad Zakir Hossain Bhuiyan alleged that ACC had decided to file a non-submission case only because Banu was Tarique's mother-in-law.
In a letter to the commission, Banu said ACC asked her on October 20,2011 to submit her wealth statement within seven days. Later, on January 30, 2012, the High Court stayed ACC's notice for four months. But on May 3, 2012, the Supreme Court stayed HC's January 30 order.
The letter added that since the January 30 stay, Banu had been waiting for a fresh notice to be issued to her. She will submit any requested statement once a fresh notice is issued, it said.
"Yesterday (Tuesday), she heard the news that ACC had decided to file a nonsubmission case against her. So she is now asking for sometime," Wasim said.
The ACC chief, however, said they would accept her wealth statement only if she could secure a High Court order in this regard.
Asked why ACC took so long to sue Banu, he said non-submission cases could be filed anytime after expiry of the submission deadline.
Meanwhile, office assistants Abul Kalam Azad of Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 and Md Ariful Islam of Special Judges Court-3 in Dhaka were quizzed by ACC on the graft
allegations against former judge Motahar Hossain, who acquitted Tarique in a money laundering case.
In another inquiry into the "discrepancies" in the wealth statements of Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi, ACC confiscated the income tax documents of the lawmaker and his wife Shahina Akhter from Cox's Bazar Income Tax office, said a source in ACC.
On January 22, the ACC launched a preliminary probe into corruption allegations against Bodi and six others-former health minister AFM Ruhal Haque, former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman, former state minister for housing and public affairs Abdul Mannan Khan, lawmaker Aslamul Haque, and former lawmakers Enamul Haque and Abdul Zabbar.