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THURSDAY, MAY 08, 2025
Case filed against ex-minister Abdur Rahman for illegal wealth

Corruption

TBS Report
27 February, 2025, 07:05 pm
Last modified: 27 February, 2025, 09:40 pm

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Case filed against ex-minister Abdur Rahman for illegal wealth

The ACC also filed three separate cases against former home affairs joint secretary Dhananjoy Kumar Das, former DIG of Bangladesh Police Mollah Nazrul Islam and former public relations officer of police Md Sharif Mahmud Apu

TBS Report
27 February, 2025, 07:05 pm
Last modified: 27 February, 2025, 09:40 pm
Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission. File Photo: TBS
Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission. File Photo: TBS

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed two separate cases against former fisheries and livestock minister Mohammad Abdur Rahman for accumulating illegal wealth worth Tk1.72 crore, which is beyond his known income.

In one of the cases, Abdur Rahman's wife, Mirza Nahida Hossain, was also named as an accused.

ACC Director General Mohammad Akhtar Hossain confirmed the filing of the cases to the journalists in Dhaka today (27 February).

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The case filed by the ACC against Abdur Rahman stated that a total of Tk1,951 crore was deposited into 19 bank accounts under his name. Of this amount, Tk1,940 crore was withdrawn.

Abdur Rahman was accused of converting, transferring, and concealing the illegal sources of the money with the intent to hide it.

Meanwhile, in the case filed against Abdur Rahman's wife Mirza Nahida Hossain, she was accused of acquiring assets worth Tk6.30 crore that are inconsistent with her known income.

The ACC reported that Tk13.93 crore was deposited into 16 bank accounts, and Tk12.62 crore was withdrawn.

However, the ACC director general did not specify when these transactions took place.

Case filed against Dhananjay Kumar and Mollah Nazrul for illegal assets

Meanwhile, in connection with allegations of acquiring illegal assets and engaging in abnormal transactions in banks, three separate cases were filed against former joint secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Dhananjay Kumar Das, Bangladesh Police's DIG Mollah Nazrul Islam, and former public relations officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs Mohammad Sharif Mahmud Apu, according to ACC Director General Mohammad Akhtar Hossain.

According to the case documents, in the first case, former joint secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Dhananjay Kumar Das was accused of acquiring illegal assets worth Tk2.47 crore, which is beyond his known income.

In the second case, former public relations officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs Sharif Mahmud Apu was accused of acquiring illegal assets worth Tk58 lakh, which is beyond his known income.

In the third case, Police DIG Mollah Nazrul Islam was accused of acquiring illegal assets worth Tk94 lakh in his name, which is beyond his known income.

The cases were filed against all of them under the Anti-Corruption Commission Act and the Money Laundering Prevention Act.

 

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