Graft Case: ACC okays charge sheet against ex- CJ Sinha
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday approved the charge sheet in a graft case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.
“The commission at its regular meeting today [yesterday] approved the charge sheet, which will be submitted to a court soon,” ACC Director General Sayeed Mahbub Khan told reporters at its Segunbagicha headquarters in the capital.
Earlier on July 10, ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the case with its Dhaka integrated district office-1 over plundering of about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank, later renamed Padma Bank. The amount was plundered using faked loan documents.
Mahbud said the money was later transferred to a bank account of SK Sinha and siphoned off.
The 10 other accused are former managing director of Farmers Bank KM Shamim, former senior executive vice president Gazi Salauddin, first vice presidents Swapon Kumar Ray and Shafiuddin Askary, former chairman of the bank’s audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty, vice president Md Lutful Haque, businessman Md Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, Ranjit Chandra Saha and his wife Shanti Roy.
The name of senior vice-president and former branch manager Md Ziauddin Ahmed was not included in the charge sheet as the ACC probe didn’t find his involvement in the loan scam, Mahbud said.
Sinha sent his resignation letter to Bangabhaban on November 10, 2017, from abroad. President Abdul Hamid accepted the resignation three days later.
The former CJ is now staying in the US.
The ACC in October last year said it found evidence of fraud involving transactions of Tk 4 crore borrowed by two businessmen, Shahjahan and Niranjan, from Farmers Bank.
Later, the graft watchdog launched a probe into the allegation. The investigation found that the money was deposited in Sinha’s bank account.
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