Gold, dollars found in SK Sur’s BB locker
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday found assets, including 1.05kg gold, in a locker at Bangladesh Bank, belonging to former deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury.
The assets also include $1,69,300, and €55,000, and fixed deposit receipt worth Tk 70 lakh, said ACC Director Kazi Saemuzzaman after searching Sur's locker at the BB.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. He said BB officials are permitted to maintain personal lockers at the central bank for keeping their valuables. The recovered assets will remain in BB's custody until these are presented before a court.
The ACC carried out the operation following a court order after SK Sur failed to submit details of his assets despite repeated notices.
Saemuzzaman added that the commission is investigating whether these assets were declared in Sur's tax filings.
On January 19, the ACC raided Sur's residence in Dhanmondi and seized Tk 16.25 lakh, along with savings certificates and insurance documents worth Tk 4.45 crore. During the operation, information about three flats owned by Sur was also obtained.
The former deputy governor was arrested on January 14 in a case filed on December 23, 2024, for failing to provide a wealth statement to the ACC.
A Dhaka court sent him to jail that day.
On the same day, the ACC lodged three cases against SK Sur, his wife Suparna Sur Chowdhury, and his daughter Nandita Sur Chowdhury for non-compliance with notices to submit their wealth statements.
SK Sur is also under the ACC scrutiny for his alleged links to Prashanta Kumar Halder (PK Halder), the former managing director of NRB Global Bank. PK Halder, who faces multiple financial crime charges in Bangladesh, was arrested in India on May 14, 2022, for money laundering. He was freed on bail recently.
Earlier, the ACC and the National Board of Revenue froze the bank accounts of SK Sur, his wife, and daughter over tax evasion allegations.
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