Court Correspondent :
Investigators of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) found about Tk 28.46 crore in 31 accounts of suspended Banani Police Station Inspector Sheikh Sohel Rana.
Sohel Rana was reportedly involved with e-commerce platform ‘e-orange’ and is under investigation over corruption allegations against him. He got the money from the e-commerce business in which he had invested money earned from illegal means, sources said.
The ACC appointed their Deputy Director Monayem Hossain to investigate the graft allegations against Sohel Rana. He opened the multilevel marketing (MLM) company e-Orange hiding his identity and amassed Tk 28,46,72,913 through fraudulence, the source said.
ACC official Monayem recently submitted his findings before the commission while it approved the findings and asked to file a case, confirms ACC’s Public Relation Office. When contacted, Monayem said, he will soon file case against Sohel Rana.
E-orange made headlines for allegedly embezzling crores of taka by not delivering customers’ products. Sohel Rana was its director while his sister and brother-in-law used to run the company.
On August 16 last year, customers filed a case against owners and staff of e-orange for embezzling about Tk 1,100 crore by not delivering products. Sohel was later detained by Border Security Force (BSF) for his illegal entrance to India in September 2021.
