The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed the seven years' imprisonment of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case.
Earlier, businessman Gias Uddin Al Mamun, a friend of Tarique Rahman, has been acquitted in the same case in which he was too sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, issued the order on Tuesday (December 10) following a hearing on appeals against the High Court verdict.
Barrister Kaiser Kamal accompanied by Barrister Nasir Uddin Ashim and Barrister Md Jakir Hossain, Adv Jakir Hossain and Adv Ajmal Hossain, were present in the court for Tarique Rahman.
On July 21, the HC sentenced Tarique Rahman to seven years' imprisonment and fined him Tk 20 crore in the case involving Tk 20.41 crore.
In 2013, the lower court acquitted Tarique from the money laundering charge and jailed Gias Uddin Al Mamun for seven years and fined him Tk 40 crore.
Tarique was arrested in an anti-corruption crackdown in 2007 and was released on bail on September 3 the following year. He flew to the UK on September 11 for treatment and has been staying in London since then.
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