Court Correspondent :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday (Tuesday) submitted charge sheet against former Chief Justice SK Sinha and 10 others in a case filed under the Money Laundering Act.
ACC Director Benjir Ahmed submitted the charge sheet in the Senior Special Judge’s court of Dhaka.
On December 4, the anti-graft body approved the charges against the 11 persons for their alleged involvement in withdrawing of Tk 40 million from the Farmers Bank.
On July 10, ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the case with its Dhaka integrated district office-1 over plundering of about Tk fory million from Farmers Bank, later renamed Padma Bank.
Ten other accused persons are former Managing Director of Farmers Bank KM Shamim, former Senior Executive Vice President Gazi Salauddin, first Vice-President Swapon Kumar Ray and Shafiuddin Askary, former Chairman of the bank’s audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty, Vice-President Md Lutful Haque, businessman Md Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, Ranjit Chandra Saha and his wife Shanti Roy.
The name of senior Vice-President and former branch manager Md Ziauddin Ahmed was not included in the charge sheet as the ACC probe didn’t find his involvement in the loan scam. S.K. Sinha sent his resignation letter to Bangabhaban on November 10, 2017, from abroad. President Abdul Hamid accepted the resignation three days later. The former CJ has been staying in the US.
The ACC in October last year said it found evidence of fraud involving transactions of Tk 40 million borrowed by two businessmen, Shahjahan and Niranjan, from Farmers Bank.
Later, the graft watchdog launched a probe into the allegation. The investigation found that the money was deposited in Sinha’s bank account.
