Court again asks ACC for probe report
A Dhaka court yesterday again asked the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit the probe report on a money laundering case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others by October 2.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka passed the order after ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain, also the investigation officer of the case, failed to submit any probe report yesterday.
On July 10, the anti-graft watchdog filed a case against SK Sinha and 10 others on charges of misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from the then Farmers Bank in 2016.
The other accused in the case include the bank’s former managing director AKM Shamim, former head of credit division Gazi Salahuddin, first vice president of credit division Swapan Kumar Roy, senior vice president Zia Uddin Ahmed, first vice president Shafiuddin Askary and vice president Lutful Haque; Shahjahan of Tangail’s Sreehoripur village; Ranjit Chandra Saha of the district’s Jodunathpur village; his wife Santri Roy and nephew Niranjan Chandra Saha.
According to the case statement, Shahjahan and Niranjan opened two separate current accounts with Farmers Bank’s Gulshan branch on November 6, 2016.
The next day, each of them applied for Tk 2 crore loan.
Both of them used the same residential address in Uttara in their bank documents.
The ACC, during investigation, found that the house is owned by Sinha, the statement said.
Shahjahan and Ranjit are known to be well-acquainted with Sinha, it said.
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