Staff Reporter: A Dhaka court on Sunday accepted the graft charges against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.
The court has accepted the charges of misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore of Farmers Bank in 2016. Accepting the charges, Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judges’ Court of Dhaka issued arrest warrants against all the accused as they have been shown fugitives in the charge sheet.
Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha resigned on November 11, 2017. He is now living in the US.
The other accused are: the bank’s former MD AKM Shamim, Senior Executive Vice-President and former head of Credit Division Gazi Salahuddin, First Vice-President of Credit Division Swapan Kumar Roy, First Vice-President Shafiuddin Askary, former chairman of the bank’s audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty and Vice-President Lutful Haque.
One Shahjahan of Tangail’s Sreehoripur village, Ranjit Chandra Saha of the district’s Jodunathpur village, his wife Santri Roy and nephew Niranjan Chandra Saha have also been accused.
The court also directed police to submit the reports on execution of arrest warrants by January 22nd.
On December 10, the Anti-Corruption Commission pressed charges against the 11 in this regard.
The ACC in October last year said it found evidence of fraud involving transactions of Tk 4 crore borrowed with fake documents by two businessmen, Shahjahan and Niranjan, from the bank. It said the money was deposited in Justice Sinha’s account.
Farmers Bank was later renamed Padma Bank.
