Court extends time for submission of probe report

FE REPORT | Published: October 03, 2019 00:11:17

A Dhaka court again asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday to submit the probe report on a money laundering case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others on November 11.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge's Court in Dhaka passed the order as ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain, who is also the investigation officer of the case, failed to submit the probe report on the day.
On July 10, the ACC filed a case against Justice SK Sinha and 10 others on charges of misappropriating and laundering about Tk 40 million from the then Farmers Bank in 2016.
The accused include the bank's former managing director AKM Shamim, former head of credit division Gazi Salahuddin, First Vice President of Credit Division Swapan Kumar Roy, Senior Vice President Zia Uddin Ahmed, First Vice President Shafiuddin Askary and Vice President Lutful Haque.
Four other accused are Shahjahan of Tangail's Sreehoripur village, Ranjit Chandra Saha of the district's Jodunathpur village, his wife Santri Roy and nephew Niranjan Chandra Saha.
According to the case statement, Shahjahan and Niranjan opened two separate current accounts with Farmers Bank's Gulshan Branch on November 6, 2016. The next day, each of them applied for loans of Tk 20 million from the accounts.
The two used the same residential address in Uttara in their bank documents. The ACC, during investigations, found that the house is owned by Mr Sinha, the statement said.
Shahjahan and Ranjit are known to be well acquainted with Justice Sinha, it added.
Sinha, the 21st chief justice of the country, resigned on November 10, 2017, while he was abroad.