The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against seven people including former home minister of Awami League government, Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
The ACC on the day also decided to launch an inquiry against former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption.聽
Besides, the commission on the day decided to impose an international travel ban on two former AL lawmakers 鈥� Abdul Wadud (Chapainawabganj-3) and Mrinal Kanti Das (Munshiganj-3) 鈥� over allegations of corruption.
ACC deputy director Syed Ataul Kabir filed the case against Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir and six others with its integrated district office in Jamalpur, ACC director general (prevention) Md Aktar Hossain said.
The other accused in the case are Farmers Bank鈥簊 former director and RCL plastic industry proprietor Rashidul Haque Chisty, the bank鈥檚 Bakshiganj branch former manager Masudur Rahman, and its assistant officers 鈥� Fakhruzzaman, Mohammed Faruk, Md Hiron Rahman, and Md Ibrahim Khan.聽
According to the case statement, an account was opened at Bakshiganj branch of Farmers Bank [now Padma Bank PLC] in Jamalpur in the name of Sultana Matshya Khamar with fake documents and address during the tenure of MK Alamgir as chairman of the board of directors of the private bank.
The name of MK Alamgir, also a former lawmaker for Chandpur-1 constituency, was mentioned as the owner of the non-existing Sultana Matshya Khamar, it said.
The accused, in collusion with each other, conducted transactions of Tk 8.86 crore through the bank account between 2014 and 2017 to hide the source and ownership of the ill-gotten money, said the case statement.
ACC officials said that the commission decided to launch聽an inquiry against ex-finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and his family members over allegations of amassing illegal assets.
Referring to the allegations, they said, Kamal purchased lands in the Zoarsahara and Badda areas in Dhaka, and in Cumilla in his own name and deposited a huge amount of money in different banks and financial institutions, invested in shares, and invested Tk 20.48 crore in savings certificates.
They said that there were also allegations that ACC the former minister had investments in various companies, including Lotus Kamal Properties and Orbital Enterprises, and in land, plots, and apartments in different places in Dhaka and Cumilla in the name of his wife Kashmiri Kamal.
The officials said that there were deposits, investments in shares, and savings certificates in the name of the ex-minister鈥檚 wife in various banks and financial institutions amounting to Tk 38.87 crore.
They said that the ACC had received information that Mustafa Kamal and Kashmiri Kamal owned movable and immovable assets worth Tk 111.63 crore.
Apart from the assets, the ACC intelligence unit also found information that Kamal amassed assets worth hundreds of crores of taka at home and abroad, they said.
ACC deputy director [public relations] Aktarul Islam said that the commission decided to impose an international travel ban on former AL lawmakers Abdul Wadud and Mrinal Kanti Das and will submit petitions to a Dhaka court soon for imposing a travel ban on them.
Earlier, the commission decided to launch inquiries against the two former lawmakers over allegations of amassing illegal wealth.