Dhaka, July 13 (bdnews24.com/) — A Dhaka court has ordered Mahmudur Rahman, the detained acting editor of the newspaper Amar Desh, to be shown arrested in an ACC case filed for failing to provide a wealth statement.
Dhaka Metropolitan magistrate Kanika Bishwas gave the order, following an application made on Tuesday by the ACC deputy director Nur Ahmed, also the investigation officer in the case.
Ahmed, who had filed the case with Gulshan police on June 13, told bdnews24.com that Rahman had not submitted information on his wealth after the ACC had sent him a notice.
Rahman has already secured bail in six out of the seven cases filed against him.
On June 2, police stormed the Amar Desh newspaper office and arrested acting editor Rahman on fraud charges brought against him by the paper's publisher Hashmat Ali Hashu, who himself was under a 'brief dramatic detention' on June 1.
On June 1, the government had stopped the publication of the newspaper and sealed off its press.
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