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Bangladesh court issues arrest warrants against ex-ministers
Real estate news By Times of India
26 Sep 2007
A court here has issued arrest warrants against 23 people, including several former ministers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party regime, for allegedly selling 18 abandoned government houses in a made-up auction, reports said here on Wednesday.
A metropolitan magistrate's court issued the warrants against former commerce minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, former works minister Mirza Abbas, ex-premier Khaleda Zia's political secretary Harris Chowdhury, real estate tycoon Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Shah Alam along with 19 others including officials, The Prothom Alo newspaper reported.
Of them Abbas and former Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) or Dhaka Development Authority Director Humayun Khan were already in jail in several other graft charges. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case alleging that the accused caused a loss of 127.64 crore Taka to the exchequer by selling 18 abandoned government houses at lower prices in a made-up auction when now detained Zia's government was in power from 2001-2006.
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