ACC files case against businessman

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday filed a case against businessman Md Delwar Hossain accusing him of laundering over Tk 110 million and investing in "second home" scheme in Malaysia.
The accused, a former president of Shop Owners' Association of Fulbaria Supermarket-2 in the city's Gulistan, accumulated the sum of money beyond known sources, according to the ACC case.
The case was filed by ACC assistant director Muhammad Jafar Sadeq Shibly as per sections 27(1) and 26(2) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004 and section 4(2) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012.
In the wealth statement, submitted to the commission, Delwar disclosed information of Tk 60,768,770 worth of wealth in his name but the ACC, in its inquiry, found that the accused accumulated a total of Tk 110,346,881 worth of wealth from unknown sources.
Besides, he showed revenue of the companies owned by him in his tax return while the anti-graft authority also traced asset which he registered under fake names.
There are also allegations against Delwar that he invested in the "second home" scheme in Malaysia, an ACC source said.
Incidentally, Delwar's name came to light after he filed a case accusing ex-Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon and six others of embezzling Tk 348 million.
The case was filed on December 30, 2020 with Metropolitan Magistrate's Court and the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has been investigating the case.
In the case, he alleged that the former DSCC Mayor and his associates took around Tk 348 million in between June, 2015 and September, 2019 from him and 26 other businessmen in the name of allocating shops at Block-A of the Fulbaria Market-2.

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