The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two cases against Awami League praesidium member and former minister Jahangir Kabir Nanok and former lawmaker Shamim Osman and their family members on charges of money laundering.
ACC also decided to initiate enquiries against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 daughter Saima Wazed Putul, former defence adviser Tariq Siddiq, British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, and former principal secretary Tofazzel Hossain Miah over allegations of corruption.
ACC director Jalal Uddin Ahmed filed the two cases against Nanok and Shamim Osman and their family members with its integrated district office in Dhaka and Narayanganj, said ACC director general Akhtar Hossain.
A case was filed against Jahangir Kabir Nanak, his wife, and Ratul Telecom chairman Syeda Arjuman Banu, his daughter and the company鈥檚 director S Amreen Rakhi, on charges of laundering $3.32 crore worth Tk 259 crore.
Besides, a case was also filed against former Narayanganj 4 lawmaker Shamim Osman, his wife Salma Osman, and her brother Tanvir Ahmed on charges of laundering $25.1 million (approximately Tk 193.9 crore).
According to the case, K Telecommunications Limited鈥檚 chairman, Salma Osman, and its managing director, Tanvir Ahmed, and Shamim Osman, have allegedly laundered $25.1 million in violation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2012.
The ACC decided to conduct an inquiry against seven people, including Tariq Siddiq, his wife Shahin Siddique, daughter Bushra Siddiq, and nieces Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq.
There are allegations against them of corruption, abuse of power, embezzlement of government land, money laundering, and acquiring illegal assets in the country and abroad, said ACC DG Akhter Hossain.
ACC also initiated a probe against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 daughter Saima Wazed over allegations of corruption in her appointment as the regional director of the World Health Organization.
There are allegations that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina used her power unethically to make her daughter Saima the regional director of the WHO despite her lack of qualifications to be the regional director for South-East Asia.
ACC also decided to start inquiry against Tofazzal Hossain Mia, former principal secretary to the prime minister, over allegations of money laundering abroad and amassing illegal wealth through bribery, and corruption.
Apart from this, ACC also decided to start inquiry into allegations of irregularities involving a Tk 234 crore loan disbursed by First Security Islami Bank against a street food shop and two other restaurants in Chattogram.
ACC DG Md Akhtar Hossain said that intelligence reports indicate that S Alam Group chairman and First Security Islami Bank owner Mohammad Saiful Alam Masud is involved in the Tk 234 crore loan fraud.
