A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to singer Mainul Ahsan Noble in a fraud case filed with Motijheel Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shafi Uddin passed the order till the submission of a chargesheet on bond of Tk 5,000. Earlier in the day, DB inspector also the investigating officer of the case Humayun Kabir produced him before the court after completion of his one-day remand in the case. Advocate Abdullah Al Mamun stood for Noble. Md Safayet Islam filed a case on May 16 on behalf of Shariatpur’s Vedorganj Headquarter Pilot High School’s HSC 16th batch. Later, a court granted one-day remand to Noble on May 20. Also read: Airhostess, musicians blamed for Noble’s drug addiction According to the case details, Noble received TK 1.72 lakh for performing at the high school’s reunion programme but he didn’t perform at the event organised for April 28 and he did not even return the money. Earlier, his ex-wife Salsable Mahmud complained to the police and wrote on social media about the constant physical and emotional abuse of Noble, citing that he is an avid drug addict and his demeanour got drastically changed in recent years due to his addiction. Noble won the 2nd runner-up position in the popular Indian TV reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’s West Bengal edition on Zee Bangla in 2019 and received the "Viewer's Choice" award, winning hearts in both countries. However, his addiction led him to several miserable acts one after another, degrading his popularity among his audiences.  

A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced five people including, Helena Jahangir, expelled leader of an  Awami League sub-committee, to two years imprisonment in a fraud case filed with Pallabi Police Station. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain handed down the judgment. The court also fined them Tk 2000 each, in default, to suffer two months more imprisonment. The four other convicts are-- Hazera Khatun, general manager of Helena Jahangir's IPTV Joyjatra television, its coordinator Sanaullah Nuri, chief news editor Quamruzzaman Arif and staff reporter Mahfuz Shahrier. Also Read: Court fixes Mar 20 for delivering judgment in case against Helena Jahangir, 4 others The court also issued warrants for the arrest of Helena and Hazera for not to appear before the court during the hearing. On March 14, the court fixed March 20 for delivering the judgment in the case after concluding the law-point arguments from both the defense and state counsel sides. Abdur Rahman Tuhin, Bhola district correspondent of Joyjatra television, filed the case against Helena and four others with Pallabi Police Station on August 2, 2021. Also Read: Helena Jahangir gets bail in DSA case, may walk out of jail soon According to the prosecution, Helena Jahangir took Tk 54,000 from Tuhin for appointing him as a district correspondent of the television. After joining the television, he did not get any remuneration for several months. On the other hand, the television authorities used to take Tk 3,000 from him every month. On November 21, 2021, inspector Shahinur Islam of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted chargesheet against Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court. On July 29, 2021, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Helena Jahangir, 49, from her residence in the city’s Gulshan-2 area. The elite force members "seized foreign liquor, illegal walkie-talkie sets, casino equipment and deer skins" from her possession. Four separate cases were filed against Helena.      

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer’s most powerful figures before being embroiled in corruption investigations. The case was centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter’s approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier. The verdict followed an 11-day trial last month at the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona. “Following the decision of the judges of the Court of Bellinzona, this morning, I wanted to express my happiness for all my loved ones that justice has finally been done after seven years of lies and manipulation,” Platini said in a statement. “The truth has come to light during this trial. “I kept saying it: my fight is a fight against injustice. I won a first game. In this case, there are culprits who did not appear during this trial. Let them count on me, we will meet again. Because I will not give up and I will go all the way in my quest for truth.” Swiss prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand had requested a 20-month suspended sentence for both Blatter and Platini. Read: Sepp Blatter, Platini indicted for fraud in Switzerland Blatter announced his plan to resign early as president, in June 2015, in the fallout from a sprawling American corruption investigation — ending his 17-year reign. A separate but cooperating case by Swiss prosecutors led to the Platini payment being investigated. The fallout ended Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor and saw the former French soccer great removed as president of UEFA, the governing body of European soccer. “Believe me, going from being a legend of world soccer to a devil is very difficult, especially when it comes to you in a totally unfair way,” Platini added. Both Blatter and Platini have long denied wrongdoing and claim they had a verbal deal in 1998 for Platini to get extra salary that FIFA could not pay at the time. Platini signed a contract in August 1999 to be paid 300,000 Swiss francs ($300,000) annually.   That defense first failed with judges at the FIFA ethics committee, which banned them from soccer, and later in separate appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. Lawyers for stockholders of the Austin, Texas-based company also say in court documents that the judge in the case has ruled that Musk's tweets about having “funding secured” to take Tesla private were false, and that his comments also violate a 2018 court settlement with U.S. securities regulators in which Musk and Tesla each agreed to pay $20 million fines. Also read:Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter, make it 'maximally trusted' Musk, during an interview Thursday at the TED 2022 conference, said he had the funding to take Tesla private in 2018. He called the Securities and Exchange Commission a profane name and said he only settled because bankers told him they would stop providing capital if he didn't, and Tesla would go bankrupt. The interview and court action came just days after Musk, the world's richest person, made a controversial offer to take over Twitter and turn it into a private company with a $43 billion offer that equals $54.20 per share. Twitter's board on Friday adopted a “poison pill” strategy that would make it prohibitively expensive for Musk to buy the shares. In court documents filed Friday, lawyers for the Tesla shareholders alleged that Musk is trying to influence potential jurors in the lawsuit. They contend that Musk's 2018 tweets about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share were written to maniuplate the stock price, costing shareholders money. Now, lawyers say Musk is campaigning to influence possible jurors as the case gets closer to trial. “Musk's comments risk confusing potential jurors with the false narrative that he did not knowingly make misrepresentations with his Aug. 7, 2018 tweets,” the lawyers wrote. “His present statements on that issue, an unsubtle attempt to absolve himself in the court of public opinion, will only have a predjudicial influence on a jury." The lawyers asked Judge Edward M. Chen in San Francisco to restrain Musk from making further public comments on the issue until after the trial. Chen gave Musk's lawyers until Wednesday to respond. Alex Spiro, a lawyer representing Musk, wrote in an email Sunday that the plaintiffs' lawyers are seeking a big payout. “Nothing will ever change the truth, which is that Elon Musk was considering taking Tesla private and could have,” he wrote. “All that's left some half-decade later is random plaintiffs lawyers trying to make a buck and others trying to block that truth from coming to light, all to the detriment of free speech.” But the shareholders' lawyers wrote that Chen already ruled that Musk's tweets were false and misleading, and “that no reasonable juror could conclude otherwise.” Judge Chen's order, issued April 1, was not in the public court file as of Sunday. Adam Apton, a lawyer for the shareholders, said it was sealed because it has evidence that Musk and Tesla say is confidential. It will stay sealed until the parties agree if anything should remain sealed, he wrote in an email. “Our motion for TRO (temporary restraining order) accurately desribes the issues decided by the court,” Apton wrote. Also read:Elon Musk accused of breaking law while buying Twitter stock After Musk's 2018 tweets, the SEC filed a complaint against him alleging securities law violations. Musk then agreed to the fine and signed the court agreement. Part of the agreement says that Musk “will not take any action or make or permit to be made any public statement denying, directly or indirectly, any allegation in the complaint or creating the impression that the complaint is without factual basis.” If Musk violates the agreement, the SEC may ask the court to scrap it and restore the securities fraud complaint, the agreement says. A message was left Sunday seeking comment from the SEC. Spiro, on behalf of Musk, already has asked a Manhattan federal court to throw out the agreement. He contends the SEC is using the pact and “near limitless resources” to chill Musk’s speech. Court documents filed by Spiro say Musk signed the agreement when Tesla was a less mature company and SEC action jeopardized its financing.

A court here on Thursday sent wife of a police inspector to jail rejecting her bail plea in a case filed on charge of fraudulence. Rangpur Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Raju Ahmed passed the order when lawyer of Kaniz Fatima Anisa, wife of Rangpur district police inspector Habibur Rahman, filed a petition before the court seeking her bail. The court fixed January 12 for the next hearing, said court inspector Nazmul Quader. .Earlier on Tuesday, Anisa was arrested from a rented house in Beacon Mor area of Rangpur city. Officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station (Investigation) Hossain Ali said RAB members detained Shahrukh Karim Anik,34, and his wife Asmani Akter,24, on Sunday night from their house in Grand Hotel Mor area of ​​the city on charges of extorting money from people and torturing them. Read: Defeated UP member candidate beaten dead in Shariatpur Kaniz Fatima Anisa's name came after the couple gave confessional statement to the court. Later, she was arrested from a house in Beacon area around 5:30 pm on Tuesday, he added. Assistant Director of Rangpur RAB-13 Mahmud Bashir Ahmed said in a press release that Anik and his wife along with some others used to target people and develop intimate relationship with them. They used to take their obscene photos tactfully and extort money by threatening them of spreading the photos on social media. Following a complaint, RAB-13 members conducted a drive at Grand Hotel Mor area of Rangpur city on Sunday night and detained the couple, added the release.

The High Court has rejected the bail application of ​​disgraced Regent Hospital chairman Mohammad Shahed, in a case of fraud and embezzlement. HC bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim passed the order on Tuesday. Advocate Sagir Hossain Leon stood in favor of the application in court. Deputy Attorney General Bashir Ullah stood on behalf of the state. Bashir Ullah said the court did not grant bail to Shahed in the case filed by a businessman at Uttara West Police Station for non-payment of dues for sand bought for construction. The trader used to supply sand to Md. Shahed alias Shahed Karim's company. Read: Sahinuddin murder: HC rejects former MP Awal’s bail But Shahed kept turning around without paying. Shahed even called the businessman in the name of paying him and instead had him beaten up. After Shahed's arrest for irregularities at Regent Hospital , he filed a case with Uttara West Police Station, said Bashir Ullah On July 6 last year, RAB raided the Uttara and Mirpur branches of Regent Hospital. During the operation, fake Covid test reports, and various irregularities including collection of money from patients in the name of Covid treatment were unveiled. The next day, a case was filed against 17 people at Uttara West Police Station.  On July 15, from the border area of ​​Satkhira, Regent Group and Regent Hospital Chairman Shahed was arrested by RAB. Shahed has been imprisoned since then. Last year, the court sentenced him to life imprisonment in an arms case.

Police on Tuesday arrested AB Bank Deputy Managing Director (DMD) Abdur Rahman in a fraud case from his Gulshan residence. Confirming the information, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Assistant Commissioner Newton Das (Gulshan zone) said,” He was nabbed as an arrest warrant was issued against him by the court in a fraud case.” Read: Almost 14,000 people arrested in DMP’s special anti-narcotics drive in 8 months However, the police officer did not give any details on the charges. He will be produced before the court very soon, the officer added. Earlier on Sunday, another two AB Bank officials – AB Bank Assistant Vice President Abdur Rahim and Vice President Shahidul Islam - were arrested for allegedly embezzling Tk 1.76 billion through fake work orders and illegal bank guarantees. Read:Dhamaka COO arrested for 'fraud' A court scrapped their petitions for bail and sent them to prison. On Jun 8, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against 17 people, including two former AB Bank Managing Directors – Mashiur Rahman Chowdhury and Shameem Ahmed Chowdhury on corruption charges.

A Dhaka court on Thursday sent three people including owner of virtual outlet e-orange.shop to jail in a fraud case filed over embezzlement of Tk 1,100 crore from consumers. The accused are its owner Sonia Mehzabin, her husband Masukur Rahman and Aman Ullah, Chief Operating Officer of e-Orange. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah passed the order rejecting their bail petition when they were produced before it on completion of their 5-day remand. Read: Sub-Inspector of police sent to jail in rape case Earlier on Aug 23, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan placed the accused on a 5-day remand in the fraud case. On Aug 17, the court sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers when they surrendered to Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abubakar Siddique's court. On August 16, an aggrieved customer of E-Orange Md Taherul Islam filed a fraud case with Gulshan police station in presence of 37 other customers who testified against the accused.

A Dhaka court on Monday placed  three  people including the owners of virtual outlet e-orange.shop  on a 5-day remand in a fraud case filed over embezzlement of Tk 1,100 crore from consumers. Those remanded are its owner Sonia Mehzabin and her husband Masukur Rahman and Aman Ullah, Chief Operating Officer of e-Orange. Read: Owners of e-orange.shop sent to jail over fraud case The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan passed the order after investigation officer of the case Aminul Islam produced them before  it with a 10-day remand plea. On August 16, an aggrieved customer of E-Orange Md Taherul Islam filed a fraud case with Gulshan police station in presence of 37 other customers who testified against the accused. According to the case, on April 21, Taherul ordered a product from eorgance.shop and paid in advance. But the online shop failed to deliver the product on the promised date. Neither did it return the money. The outlet has posted notice on its Facebook page many times seeking more time from the customers to deliver the products. But the products didn’t come. Read:Travel ban imposed on Evaly chairman, MD Besides, the gift vouchers the company provided to shop in different outlets were also not being honoured. They said the company didn’t pay them their money. Taherul said he filed the case in fear of losing his money after he came to know the company’s ownership had changed hands. Later on Tuesday last, the owner and her husband surrendered before the court seeking bail. Read:Evaly is under ACC probe for alleged misappropriation But, the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Bakar Siddique rejected their bail plea and  sent them behind the bars. Besides, the CEO was arrested from Gulshan area on the evening of August 18. At the time, 24 credit cards, Tk 16 lakh and a car were seized from him.

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent owners of virtual outlet e-orange.shop  Sonia Mehzabin and her husband Masukur Rahman in a fraud case filed over embezzlement of Tk 1,100 crore from consumers. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Bakar Siddique passed the order rejecting their bail pleas. Earlier, the accused surrendered before the court seeking bail. Also read: Film actress Eka sent to jail in two cases On Monday an aggrieved customer of E-Orange Md Taherul Islam filed a fraud case with Gulshan police station in presence of 37 other customers who testified against the accused. According to the case, on April 21, Taherul ordered a product from eorgance.shop paid in advance. But the online shop failed to deliver the product on the promised date. Neither did it return the money. The outlet has posted notice on its Facebook page many times seeking more time from the customers to deliver the products. But the products didn’t come. Also read: Rupganj factory fire: Owner sent to jail, his 2 sons granted bail Besides, the gift vouchers the company provided to shop in different outlets were also not being honoured. They said the company didn’t pay them their money. Taherul said he filed the case in fear of losing his money after he came to know the company’s ownership has changed hands.