ACC sues Khasru, wife, 3 others

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against five  people including BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru and his wife  in connection with misappropriating a plot of land, hiding ownership of shares in Hotel Sarina  Dhaka, and violating the Building Code 

ACC Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain disclosed this during a press briefing at ACC headquarters yesterday.

The others accused in the case are Khasru's wife Tahera Khasru Alam,  Hotel Sarina Chairman Golam Sarwar, Managing Director Sabera Sarwar  Nina, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) Building Inspector (Design  Approval Branch) Aurangzeb Nannu.

Deputy Director of ACC's Integrated District Office Dhaka-1 Salina  Akhtar filed the case on allegation of conspiring to benefit by  misappropriating a plot in the name of developing an adjacent plot on  Banani Road-17, owned by Chittagong Stock Exchange under Rajuk.

On top of that, the Rajuk-approved design was violated in building and operating the five star Hotel Sarina.

According to the complaint, ACC probed into allegations of appropriating assets beyond the known sources of income  of Khasru and his wife. In the probe, it came out that they concealed information about  holding shares of Hotel Sarina, along with their relatives Nina and  Golam Sarwar.

Amir Khosru and his brother-in-law Golam Sarwar bought plot-25 on Road-17 in Banani and built a  21-storey building instead of the 15-storey structure approved by Rajuk.

Khosru, during his tenure as president of CSE, appointed Golam Sarwar  as the developer of plot-27 and then misappropriated the plot along with his wife.

Later, the trio built a 22-storey building there to  house the hotel.