Special Judge Mahmudul Karim of Dinajpur passed the orders after rejecting their bail pleas on Wednesday. The judge set Feb 27 for charge-framing, said Aminul Islam, the public prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Commission. The 22 accused appeared in court and appealed for bail after the case was transferred from the Senior Special Judges Court. The embezzlement of the coal took place between January, 2006 and July, 2018, according to the investigation. The others named in the charge-sheet are former general managers Md Shariful Alam, Md Abul Qasem Prodhania and Abu Taher Md Nur-uz-Zaman Chowdhury; deputy general managers Muhammad Kholilur Rahman, Md Zobayer Ali, Md Morsheduzzaman, Md Habibur Rahman, Md Jahedur Rahman, and AKM Khaledul Islam; managers Masudur Rahman Howlader, Md Arifur Rahman, Syed Iman Hasan, Md Shoyebur Rahman, Ashok Kumar Halder; and assistant managers Satyendranath Barman and Md Moniuruzzaman.

Source: bd News24 January 13, 2021 14:19 UTC