The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday found assets worth Tk聽4.70 crore in a locker at the Bangladesh Bank, belonging to former deputy governor Sitanshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury.
ACC director Kazi Saemuzzaman said that the discovery included 1 kg of gold, $169,300, 鈧�55,000, and a fixed deposit receipt of Tk 70 lakh, valued at Tk 4.70 crore based on current rates.
According to Saemuzzaman, Bangladesh Bank officials are permitted to maintain lockers in their names for storing personal valuables. The recovered assets will remain under the custody of the Bangladesh Bank until they are presented in court.
The commission conducted the operation in compliance with a court order, following SK Sur鈥檚 failure to submit information regarding his assets despite being formally asked to do so, he said.
聽Saemuzzaman noted that the commission is investigating whether these assets were declared in Sur鈥檚 tax returns.
Earlier, on January 19, the commission raided SK Sur鈥檚 Dhanmondi house in the capital, recovering Tk聽16.25 lakh in cash, savings certificates, and insurance papers worth Tk聽4.45 crore.
During the operation, the commision also obtained information about his three flats.
On January 14, SK Sur Chowdhury was arrested and subsequently sent to jail by a Dhaka court in connection with a case filed on December 23, 2024, for failing to submit his wealth statement to the commission.
On the same day, the commission filed three cases against SK Sur, his wife Suparna Sur Chowdhury, and his daughter Nandita Sur Chowdhury for not complying with notices that asked them to submit their wealth statements.
The former deputy governor has been under ACC scrutiny for his alleged links to Prashanta Kumar Haldar, also known as PK Halder, the former managing director of NRB Global Bank.
PK Halder, the prime suspect in numerous financial scam cases in Bangladesh, was arrested in Ashoknagar in India on May 14, 2022, on money laundering charges. However, he was recently granted bail in the case.
Previously, the commission froze the bank accounts of SK Sur, his wife and daughter as part of its investigation into allegations of tax evasion. In July 2022, the National Board of Revenue also directed banks to freeze their accounts.
