The ACC contends that a Tk 420 million fund that Khalidi deposited into different bank accounts came from an “unknown source”. This time, the bail has been made permanent, ACC lawyer Mahmud Hossain Jahangir said after the latest hearing. After bdnews24.com announced a Tk 500 million investment by an asset management company in the news publisher in October 2019, the ACC began examining the deal and subsequently started a case against Khalidi on Jul 30.bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi gets 8-week bail in ACC caseAll for journalism! Khalidi said BRAC EPL sent draft versions of information memorandum of bdnews24.com in 2017 after signing a non-disclosure agreement. For its part, the ACC soon afterwards weighed in, leaving certain bank accounts of Khalidi and bdnews24.com frozen.

Source: bd News24 November 25, 2020 07:41 UTC