Online Desk  :   A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to BNP leader and M/s One Spinning Mills Ltd owner Gias Uddin Al Mamun in a money laundering case. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Jaglul Hossain passed the order after a hearing. Subhas Chandra Dutta, deputy director of the Anti-Corruption Commission’s Dhaka district coordinated office-1, filed the case against 21 people on June 21, 2022.

The case statement said the owners of M/s One Spinning Mills Ltd opened a latter of credit without security money in collusion with the officials of Sonali Bank’s head office and local office on November 4, 2004. They created Loan Against Trust Receipt without following the conditions and imported equipment worth Tk 32.67 crore through the LC. Later, they embezzled the money.

On January 30, 2007, the then joint forces arrested Gias Uddin Al Mamun and since then, he has been in prison. More than 20 cases were lodged against him on various allegations, including extortion, graft, money laundering, tax evasion. In 2013, a court sentenced him seven years in jail in a case. Earlier, he was given 10 years’ jail in another case which the High Court, later, scrapped. Besides, he was jailed for 10 years in a case for amassing illegal wealth.