Former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury, also known as SK Sur, was arrested and was sent to jail later on聽 Tuesday in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The court of senior special judge, Dhaka, Zakir Hossain Galib ordered to send him to jail as the ACC deputy director Nazmul Hussain produced him before the court with a prayer to send him to jail.聽
A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested SK Sur from the capital鈥檚 Segun Bagicha in the early hours of Tuesday following a request from the anti-corruption commission, said a DMP DB high official.聽
鈥榃e have handed over SK Sur to the ACC on Tuesday morning,鈥� said the detective branch official.
On December 23, 2024, the commission filed three separate cases against former central bank deputy governor SK Sur, his wife Suparna Sur Chowdhury, and his daughter Nandita Sur Chowdhury, for not submitting their wealth statements to the commission.
Earlier, the commission had issued notices to the three graft suspects to submit their wealth statements which they did not comply.聽
SK Sur Chowdhury has been under the commission鈥檚 scrutiny for his alleged links to former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Haldar, also known as PK Halder.
PK Halder, the prime accused in several dozen cases of financial crimes in Bangladesh, was arrested in Ashoknagar, India, on May 14, 2022 on charges of money laundering. But he recently got bail in the money laundering case.
Earlier, the commission froze the bank accounts of SK Sur, his wife and daughter as part of an inquiry into allegations of tax evasion against the three.
Later in July 2022, the National Board of Revenue directed banks to freeze the accounts of the three accused.