Destiny chairman Harun gets bail for 6 months
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Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid. Photo: File
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday granted bail for six months to Destiny Group President and also former chief of army staff Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid in connection with a case, in which the special court awarded him four years jail sentence on a charge of embezzling Tk 1,861 crore through Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited.
A bench of the High Court comprising Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order after hearing on a bail petition filed by the former chief of army staff.
Lawyer Md Robiul Alam Budu appeared in the case on behalf of Harun, while lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan appeared for the ACC and deputy attorney general AKM Amin Uddin Manik represented the state.
Earlier on May 12 in 2022, a special court in Dhaka sentenced all the 46 accused, including Destiny Group President Harun and Managing Director Rafiqul Amin, to different terms of imprisonment in a case filed over embezzling Tk 1,861 crore through Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited.
Harun was sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined Tk 3.5 crore and Rafiqul Amin was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment and fined Tk 200 crore. The court awarded minimum imprisonment to the former chief of army considering his noble contribution to our great liberation war.
Judge of the Special Judge’s Court-4 in Dhaka, Shaikh Nazmul Alam, delivered the verdict after concluding all the proceedings of the case.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on July 31, 2012, filed two cases under Money Laundering Prevention Act with the capital’s Kalabagan Police Station.
In one case, 46 people were accused of misappropriating Tk 1,861 crore under the cover of Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited Project, while in another case 19 people were accused of embezzling more than Tk 2,257 crore through Destiny Tree Plantation Project.
The court on August 24, 2016, framed charges in the two cases. Of the two cases, the court pronounced the judgement in the Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited case on May 12 this year.
