ACC files graft case against ex-NBR member, wife

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case on Sunday against a former member of National Board of Revenue (NBR) and his wife for accumulating wealth of Tk 58 million illegally.
The accused are -- former NBR member ATM Sarwar Hossain and his wife Nazma Sarwar.
The commission's assistant director Muhammad Jainul Abedin filed the case with integrated district office (IDO) Dhaka-1, said ACC public relations official Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.
According to the case statement, the couple accumulated about Tk 58 million from unknown sources and transferred the sum of money to conceal information in their wealth statements.
The case was filed as per section 27(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004, section 109 of the Penal Code and section 4(2) and 13 of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012.
However, Mr Sarwar was sentenced to a total of 21 years in jail in 2007 and 2008 in two separate cases filed by NBR and ACC.
The cases were filed for evading tax and providing fabricated information in his income tax return and concealing information about assets in the wealth statement.
Nazma was also sentenced to three years in jail for instigating her husband to commit crimes like graft.

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