Mirza Abbas acquitted in 2 graft cases | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Epaper
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Banking
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Sunday
June 01, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Epaper
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Banking
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
SUNDAY, JUNE 01, 2025
Mirza Abbas acquitted in 2 graft cases

Bangladesh

TBS Report
29 August, 2024, 05:05 pm
Last modified: 29 August, 2024, 05:11 pm

Related News

  • Does framing election demands as a ‘single party narrative’ reflect ground realities?
  • CA Yunus invites BNP again for talks on Monday: Salahuddin Ahmed
  • Hasnat dismisses AB Party's allegations of BNP, NCP seat-sharing in upcoming polls as 'false, misleading'
  • CA’s statement on only 1 party seeking Dec polls: Several others reject claim, demand elections first
  • Speaking about country’s problems in foreign trips won’t solve them: Khasru takes jibe at Yunus

Mirza Abbas acquitted in 2 graft cases

Dhaka Special Judge Court judges delivered the verdicts today (29 August), according to court sources

TBS Report
29 August, 2024, 05:05 pm
Last modified: 29 August, 2024, 05:11 pm
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas. File Photo: Collected
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas. File Photo: Collected

A Dhaka court today (29 August) acquitted BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas in two separate cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Dhaka Special Judge's Court-4 Judge Md Rabiul Alam acquitted Abbas in a case filed over allegations of irregularities in plot allocation, according to court sources.

ACC Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam filed a petition to withdraw the case. After the hearing, the court granted the petition.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

The other two accused in this case are former BNP MP Ali Asgar Lobi and government official Mahfuzul Islam.

According to the case document, in 2006, while serving as public works minister, Mirza Abbas allocated 19.44 kathas of land in the Tejgaon Industrial Area to a company named Pacific Chemicals.

ACC alleged that he made this allocation through irregularities in association with Ali Asgar Lobi and Mahfuzul Islam.

Following the complaint, the then ACC deputy director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed a case with Shahbagh Police Station on 15 July 2007.

On 11 February of the following year, the court ordered the framing of charges against the accused.

Besides, Judge Masud Parvez of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 acquitted Mirza Abbas in a graft case filed against him in 2007.

During the hearing, the court acquitted him as the allegations against him could not be proven.

The ACC on 16 August 2007, filed the case with Ramna Police Station for amassing illegal wealth of Tk7.54 crore and concealing information about wealth of Tk57.26 lakh.

ACC Assistant Director Md Khairul Huda after probing the case, filed charge sheet on 24 May 2008, accusing Abbas for amassing illegal wealth of Tk4.23 crore and concealing wealth statement of Tk22 lakh.

The court on 16 June 2008, framed charges against Mirza Abbas.

During the trial, the court recorded statements of 24 prosecution witnesses.

Top News

Mirza Abbas / BNP / Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Illustration: TBS
    Tax-free income ceiling to be raised, slabs restructured
  • Infographic: TBS
    Govt targets Dec opening of Dhaka airport's 3rd terminal but Japanese consortium wants 2 more months
  • Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus returns to Dhaka on 1 June 2025, wrapping up his four-day official tour to Japan. Photo: Courtesy
    CA Yunus returns home wrapping up Japan tour

MOST VIEWED

  • BAT Bangladesh has to vacate Mohakhali HQ as SC rejects lease appeal
    BAT Bangladesh has to vacate Mohakhali HQ as SC rejects lease appeal
  • Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus speaks to Nikkei Asia in Tokyo on 29 May. Photo: Nikkei Asia
    Bangladesh ready to buy more US cotton, oil to reduce trade gap: Yunus
  • UCB approves 2024 financials, allocates entire profit to NPL provisions
    UCB approves 2024 financials, allocates entire profit to NPL provisions
  • Tax exemptions for key industries to go, sweeping tax hikes planned
    Tax exemptions for key industries to go, sweeping tax hikes planned
  • Matarbari 1,200MW coal-fired plant in Moheshkhali, Cox's Bazar. File Photo: Nupa Alam/TBS
    Supplier slapped with 5 conditions to unload rejected Matarbari coal shipment
  • US Embassy Dhaka. Picture: Courtesy
    Birth tourism not permitted on US visitor visa: US Embassy Dhaka

Related News

  • Does framing election demands as a ‘single party narrative’ reflect ground realities?
  • CA Yunus invites BNP again for talks on Monday: Salahuddin Ahmed
  • Hasnat dismisses AB Party's allegations of BNP, NCP seat-sharing in upcoming polls as 'false, misleading'
  • CA’s statement on only 1 party seeking Dec polls: Several others reject claim, demand elections first
  • Speaking about country’s problems in foreign trips won’t solve them: Khasru takes jibe at Yunus

Features

Babar Ali, Ikramul Hasan Shakil, and Wasfia Nazreen are leading a bold resurgence in Bangladeshi mountaineering, scaling eight-thousanders like Everest, Annapurna I, and K2. Photos: Collected

Back to 8000 metres: How Bangladesh’s mountaineers emerged from a decade-long pause

1d | Panorama
Photos: Courtesy

Behind the looks: Bangladeshi designers shaping celebrity fashion

1d | Mode
Photo collage of the sailors and their catch. Photos: Shahid Sarkar

Between sky and sea: The thrilling life afloat on a fishing ship

1d | Features
For hundreds of small fishermen living near this delicate area, sustainable fishing is a necessity for their survival. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

World Ocean Day: Bangladesh’s ‘Silent Island’ provides a fisheries model for the future

2d | The Big Picture

More Videos from TBS

Fuel prices cut; effective from June 1

Fuel prices cut; effective from June 1

2h | TBS News Updates
News of The Day, 31 MAY 2025

News of The Day, 31 MAY 2025

5h | TBS News of the day
Which way will the job crisis take the Chinese young generation?

Which way will the job crisis take the Chinese young generation?

6h | Others
How Banglalink is implementing Veon DO 1440

How Banglalink is implementing Veon DO 1440

4h | TBS Stories
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net