Court Correspondent :
The Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) once again asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to submit the probe report in the 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 court passed the order as the ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain and also the Investigation Officer of the case could not submit any probe report on Wednesday. On July 10, the ACC filed the case against SK Sinha and 10 others on charges of misappropriating and laundering in 2016 about Tk four crore from the then Farmers’ Bank.
The accused 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.
The other accused persons are Shahjahan from Tangail’s Sreehoripur village; Ranjit Chandra Saha from 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 loans for Tk two crore from the bank.
The two used the same residential address at 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 ex-CJ Sinha, the statement added.
