BNP lawmaker Md Harunur Rashid has moved the High Court against the trial court’s verdict convicting him of tax evasion.
On Monday (Oct 28), the BNP leader filed a petition challenging the five-year jail term as well as seeking bail.
On Oct 21, a Dhaka special judge’s court found him guilty in a 2007 case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charges evading taxes by abusing the MPs’ duty-free car import facilities.