an election that year. In October 2008, shortly before the December election, Rahman filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), against its chair General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury. Rahman accused the BNP appointee of having misappropriated 224.1 million taka in a money-laundering scheme. After an investigation, on 19 March 2009, an ACC internal committee dismissed the complaint as "baseless and unmotivated". It noted that Rahman had failed to appear personally before the committee to provide evidence. The election was held on 29 December 2008. The Awami League and its Grand Alliance came to power with two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. In 2010, the Awami League government charged the 13 bureaucrats of what had become known as the "Uttara Conspiracy" with sedition. They received bail. At that time, eleven were still serving in the government and two had retired. Newspaper career In 2008, Mahmudur Rahman bought the ownership of the Bengali-language, daily newspaper Amar Desh, and was appointed acting editor. He has made it a leading opposition paper. On 28 December 2008, the day before national elections, an Awami League committee chairman accused Rahman of collaborating to print fake ballot papers with his presses in order for BNP supporters to rig the election. The Awami League-coalition won the 2008 election by an overwhelming margin, winning two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. It had promised to set up an International Crimes Tribunal to prosecute war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Legal disputes On 2 October 2009, Amar Desh reported that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission had hired Indian employees, and that their presence threatened state security. The BTRC sued the paper for defamation on 28 October, noting that the Indian nationals had been appointed by the United Nations, rather than the commission. In January 2010, the energy minister, Tawfik-e-Elahi Chowdhury, sued Amar Desh for defamation over a December 2009 article alleging that he and Sajeeb Wazed Joy Hasina, the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had received bribes from Chevron Corporation to secure contracts in Bangladesh. Three days after the story was published, the reporter was physically attacked by unknown persons. Also in response to the article on Hasina and Chowdhury, Awami League members had already filed 24 defamation charges against Amar Desh before the energy minister did. Reporters Without Borders reported that on 1 June 2010, the government sent more than 100 police to arrest Rahman and close down