DHAKA, Dec 10, 2019 (BSS) – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today
filed charge sheet in a graft case against 11 people including former chief
justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.
Investigation officer (IO) and ACC director Benjir Ahmed filed the
charge sheet with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge KM Imrul
Qayes.
The anti-graft body filed the case on July 10 for embezzling Taka four
crore from then Farmers Bank and laundering the money abroad.
The other accused are- former Farmers Bank managing director AKM
Shameem, first vice-presidents Swapan Kumar Roy and Shafiuddin Askaree,
senior executive vice-president Gazi Salauddin, vice- president M Lutful
Haque, bank’s entrepreneur director Md Mahbubul Haque Chisty alias Babul
Chisty, bank clients Md Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, his uncle Ranajit
Chandra Saha, and Ranajit’s wife Santree Roy.
According to the allegation, Md Shahjahan and Niranjan took the money on
loan from then Farmers Bank, which was later transferred to Justice Sinha’s
Sonali Bank account, showing it was earned from selling of his (Sinha’s)
house.