Staff Reporter :The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday filed a case against former Chairman of Ekushey Television Abdus Salam and two others on charge of money laundering.ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam filed the case with Tejgaon Model Police Station against them for laundering about Tk 26.7 lakh, Public Relations Officer of ACC Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The New Nation on Wednesday.The two other accused in the case are former Managing Director and present Chairman of ETV Ashraful Alam and its Senior Finance Manager Fazlur Rahman Sikder.On January 26 in 2015, Tk 26.7 lakh was withdrawn from the Karwan Bazar branch of Premier Bank Limited with a cheque signed by Ashraful Alam.As per direction of Abdus Salam, the money was converted to 30,000 Euro with help of broker house agents.Fazlur Rahman Sikder kept 20,000 Euro at his mother-in-law’s house in Dhaka’s East Dania area where from Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-10 members recovered the money on December 31 in 2015.Salam was in jail at that time following his arrest on January 6, 2015 in a case filed against him under the Pornography Control Act in November 2014.On March 2 in 2016, the ACC also filed a case against Salam for allegedly swindling out about Tk 34 crore by preparing fake documents of business promotion bill, legal and professional fees, medical expenses, hotel expenses, foreign tour and satellite charge of the TV channel from September 2004 to December 2015 when he was the chairman of the channel.
