The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found evidence of suspicious transactions price Tk626,65,18,107 crore by the bank accounts of Md Jahangir Alam, former private assistant to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
According to the ACC, the funds were transacted across 23 accounts in eight banks under Jahangir’s title and the names of entities he owns, allegedly to launder and revel within the wealth earned illegally.
The anti-graft watchdog this day (17 December) moreover filed a case in opposition to Jahangir, popularly identified as Pani Jahangir, at its Dhaka Integrated District Place of job for reportedly accumulating over Tk18.29 crore price of resources previous identified earnings sources.
Confirming the pattern, ACC Director Overall Akhtar Hossain acknowledged their investigation published giant discrepancies.
The commission moreover found that Jahangir’s wife Kamrun Nahar amassed Tk 6.80 crore price of unexplained wealth despite being a housewife. A separate case has been filed in opposition to her as properly.
ACC officers published that Nahar, alongside with her husband’s assistance, operated seven financial savings and DPS accounts in two banks, conducting transactions price over Tk 5.96 crore.
Because of these abnormal monetary activities, every Jahangir and Nahar face prices under the Anti-Corruption Commission Act and Money Laundering Prevention Act, acknowledged ACC decent Akhtar.
In October this yr, the Prison Investigation Department (CID) has started an investigation in opposition to Jahangi, who passe to wait on at Sheikh Hasina’s place Sudha Sadan, over allegations of laundering a important quantity of money to the US by hundi.
Jahangir, who’s already accused of amassing a fortune of Tk400 crore, has giant resources in every Noakhali and Dhaka.
According to a CID swear, Jahangir allegedly obtained resources price over Tk400 crore and his wife Nahar holds resources valued at Tk7.3 crore, in conjunction with a 2,360 sq ft rental in Dhanmondi, a car, and Tk73 lakh in industry capital, alongside with Tk1.17 crore in bank deposits.
CID alleged that Jahangir himself owns agricultural and non-agricultural land price Tk4 crore in his dwelling district, two retail outlets in Mohammadpur and Unique Market, a seven-storey building and two apartments in Mirpur, a single-storey rental in his village, and a four-storey rental on his ancestral property in Noakhali’s Chatkhil.
His movable resources consist of Tk2.52 crore in money and bank deposits, a DPS of Tk2.75 lakh, an FDR of Tk1.3 crore, and his wife’s bank steadiness of Tk27.97 lakh, a DPS of Tk18.75 lakh, and investments in partnership firms amounting to Tk6.24 crore, it added.
The ACC started its investigation into Jahangir on 20 August, 15 days after the Awami League govt fell and Hasina fled to India amid a mass uprising led by students.
