Hasina's former office peon 'Pani Jahangir' sued for laundering Tk100cr
CID said their investigation revealed that Jahangir Alam, who hails from a lower-middle-class family in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali, had initially worked at the National Parliament Secretariat as a daily wage earner.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a case against Jahangir Alam, widely known as "Pani Jahangir," a former peon at the office of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over allegations of laundering Tk100 crore.
The case was lodged under the Money Laundering Prevention Act with Chatkhil Police Station in Noakhali today (31 October) after the agency's Financial Crime Unit found substantial evidence during a preliminary inquiry, according to a CID press release.
CID said their investigation revealed that Jahangir Alam, who hails from a lower-middle-class family in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali, had initially worked at the National Parliament Secretariat as a daily wage earner.
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After the Awami League government took office in 2009, he briefly served as a "personal assistant" at the Prime Minister's Office — a role that reportedly became the turning point in his financial fortunes.
In 2010, Jahangir established a company named Sky Re Arrange Ltd and obtained a distribution license for a mobile financial service. However, CID found that the company was being used to conduct numerous suspicious banking transactions inconsistent with its stated business operations.
Between 2010 and 2024, over Tk565 crore was transacted through multiple bank accounts under the company's name, including large amounts of cash deposits from across the country, the release said.
The sources of these funds could not be verified, and CID suspects they were linked to illegal hundi and money laundering activities, it added.
CID further stated that Jahangir, with the assistance of his wife Kamrun Nahar and brother Monir Hossain, had been conducting illegal financial transactions for years.
The couple reportedly left Bangladesh for the United States in June 2024 and are currently residing in Virginia. Despite the absence of any official approval for overseas investment, evidence suggests they have acquired assets abroad, it said.
Preliminary findings indicate that Jahangir, his wife, brother, and Sky Re Arrange Ltd jointly laundered around Tk100 crore overseas between 2010 and 2024, according to the specialised unit of Bangladesh Police.
CID said the investigation and operations are ongoing to identify and arrest other individuals involved in the network and to uncover the full extent of the crime.
