Staff Reporter
Former FBCCI president Abdul Awal Mintoo was freed on bail yesterday evening after five months in jail.
Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, Deputy Inspector General (Prisons), said that Mintoo was freed after jail authorities received a High Court bail order in an extortion case against him.
“Mintoo has been freed as there are no other cases pending against him,” he said.
Sons of the leading businessman and employees of his business firms received him at the gate of Dhaka Central Jail. Joint forces arrested Mintoo in a major anticorruption crackdown on May 29. [Read more]