Decision on charge framing against 51 Destiny men Feb 11

A Dhaka court set February 11 to decide whether the charges against   Managing Director of Destiny Group Rafiqul Amin and Destiny 2000 President Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid and 49 others accused in two money laundering cases will be framed.

Harun is now on bail while Rafiqul and five others are in jail.

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The remaining forty-four accused, including Rafiqul's wife Farah Diba, are on the run.

After completion of the arguments from both sides, Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of the Senior Special Judge's Court yesterday set the date for passing order whether the charges will be framed.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on May 4 the same year pressed charges against the 51 accused in two cases of misappropriation of funds, according to ACC. Top officials of Destiny misappropriated about Tk 4,200 crore through its tree plantation projects and the cooperative firms, and laundered this money abroad, the charge sheets state.