Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed October 19 for submitting the investigation report against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar (SK) Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
ACC filed the case against the duo over allegedly owning a three-storied house
in the United States of America (USA) bought allegedly with laundered money. Earlier, yesterday was fixed as the date for filing the investigation report in the case.
However, the Acting Judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court Syeda Hafsa Jhuma fixed October 19 for submitting the investigation report as ACC could not submit the report of the case today.
On March 31 last, ACC’s Deputy Director Gulshan Anwar Pradhan filed a case against SK Sinha and his brother in the Integrated District Office-1 due to the discovery of a three-storied house in New Jersey, USA.
The case has been charged under Section 4(2) and 4(3) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012 and Section 5(2) of the Anti-Corruption Act, 1947.
According to the case document, on June 12, 2018, Ananta bought a three-storied house for SK Sinha at a cost of 2.80 lakh US dollars (equivalent to two crore 40 lakh 80 thousand in Bangladeshi Taka where one dollar equals to Taka 86).
