Dhaka: The High Court on Wednesday fixed 4 May  for the hearing of an Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) appeal against a lower court verdict in which BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman was acquitted in a money laundering case.

A two-member HC bench comprising Justice M. Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain issued the order, reported UNB.

On 3 January, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan prayed to an HC bench to fix a date for hearing its appeal challenging the acquittal of Tarique, elder son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in the case.

The ACC had taken a move to get a ruling from the HC on the BNP’s senior vice chairman in the case involving Tk20.41 crore.

In 2009, the anti-graft watchdog filed the case against Tarique and his friend and business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun for illegally sending Tk20.41 crore to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.

On 17 November, 2013, a Dhaka court acquitted Tarique and sentenced Mamun to seven years in jail and fined him Tk40 crore.

On December 5 that year, the ACC appealed to the HC, challenging Tarique’s acquittal in the politically sensitive case.

Following the appeal, the HC on 19 January in 2014 asked the lower court to send the case records to it and ordered Tarique to surrender before the trial court.