Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas have been acquitted in two cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2007.
Judge Masud Parvez of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 acquitted Abbas in a case filed against him on charges of amassing wealth worth over Tk聽5.67 crore and concealing a wealth statement of Tk聽23 lakh to the commission.
The court in the verdict on Thursday said that the prosecution failed to prove the charges brought against the accused.
Expressing satisfaction over the verdict, Abbas, also a former minister told the journalists that he finally got justice from the court.
On August 16, 2007, the ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station against Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas for amassing wealth and concealing wealth information to the commission.
The ACC, on May 14, 2008, submitted a charge sheet against him and Afroza Abbas in the case.
Later, the High Court quashed the trial proceedings against Afroza following a writ petition against the order for framing charges against her.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Special Judge鈥簊 Court-4 Judge Md Rabiul Alam acquitted Abbas and two others in a case filed over allegations of irregularities in plot allocation.
The court passed the order accepting a petition submitted by ACC public prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam to withdraw the case.
The other two accused in this case are former BNP lawmaker Ali Asgar Lobi and government official Mahfuzul Islam.
According to the case, while serving as public works minister in 2006, Mirza Abbas allocated 19.44 kathas of land in the Tejgaon Industrial Area to a company named Pacific Chemicals.
ACC alleged that he made this allocation through irregularities in association with Ali Asgar Lobi and Mahfuzul Islam.
The then ACC deputy director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed a case with Shahbagh Police Station on July 15, 2007.
On February 11, 2008, the court ordered the framing of charges against the accused in the case.