High Court Grants Six-Month Bail to Partex Group Chairman Shawkat Aziz Russell

Dhaka, Bangladesh || Tuesday, 10 November 2026 || 25 Kartik 1433

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High Court Grants Six-Month Bail to Partex Group Chairman Shawkat Aziz Russell

Published : Tuesday, 10 November, 2026 at 8:30 PM, Count : 31

High Court Grants Six-Month Bail to Partex Group Chairman Shawkat Aziz Russell

The High Court on Tuesday granted six months’ bail to Partex Group Chairman Shawkat Aziz Russell, 10 days after he surrendered to a lower court and was sent to jail to serve a seven-year sentence in a corruption case over the allotment of a plot in the Rajuk Purbachal residential project.

A High Court bench led by Justice Sayed Jahed Mansur granted the bail after admitting Russell’s appeal against the verdict delivered by a Dhaka special court on October 13.

On November 1, Russell surrendered before the Dhaka court, which ordered his imprisonment.

Judge Md Abdus Salam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-9 had sentenced Russell, Partex Group Managing Director Ashfaq Aziz Rubel and six former Rajuk officials to seven years in prison each in the case, in their absence.

The court sentenced Russell and Rubel to seven years’ imprisonment and fined them Tk 10 lakh each for abetting criminal misconduct. They were also handed another seven-year sentence and fined Tk 10 lakh each for abetting criminal breach of trust.

However, the court ordered the sentences to run concurrently, meaning they will serve a total of seven years in prison.

The court also cancelled the plot allotments made to Russell and Rubel, sons of late Partex Group founding chairman MA Hashem, and ordered the plots to be confiscated by the state.

Senior lawyer and BNP lawmaker Zainul Abedin represented Russell before the High Court.

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