The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two cases against 11 people, including former housing and public works minister engineer Mosharraf Hossain and former Padma Bank chairman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat on charges of corruption and money laundering.
The agency also filed two cases on the day against former lawmaker from Nogaon-3 constituency Salim Uddin Tarafdar and his wife Shamima Aktar Shirin on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
Its director general for prevention Akhtar Hossain at a press briefing said that the commission approved the cases at a meeting held at its Segunbagciha headquarters in Dhaka on the day.聽
A case was filed against 10 people, including Nafeez Sarafat, his wife Anjuman Ara Shahid and son Raheeb Safwan Sarafat Chowdhury on charges of irregularities and corruption of Tk 66.51 crore.
The other accused in the case are Padma Bank former managing director Tarek Riaz Khan, Dynasty Home Ltd chairman SK Mehadi Hasan, its former managing director Rimon Karmakar, former chairman Dalia Chowdhury, former managing director Sazid Haque, former chairman Farhana Momen and former managing director Amani Nawar Chowdhury.
According to the case, the accused in collusion with each other committed irregularities and laundering of Tk 66.51 crore through converting a residential plot with the address 22/A CEN (D) block in Gulshan-2 to a commercial plot which they named 鈥楩inance Square鈥�, and transferring Padma Bank head office and its Gulshan branch there.聽
Nafeez Sarafat, when he was chairman of Padma Bank, received Tk 14.07 crore in advance through his shell company 鈥楧ynasty Home Ltd鈥� in connection with transfer of the bank head office and branch office to the Finance Square.
Another case was filed against Nafeez Sarafat, his wife Anjuman Ara Shahid, son Raheeb Safwan Sarafat Chowdhury and engineer Mosharraf Hossain on charges of irregularities and laundering of Tk 4.97 crore in connection with unlawful conversion of the Gulshan plot.聽聽
Engineer Mosharraf Hossain was made accused as he gave approval to the plot鈥檚 conversion, violating rules and regulations.
Meanwhile, the commission filed a case against former lawmaker Salim Uddin Tarafdar on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 5.93 crore and carrying out suspicious transactions of Tk 69.68 crore in his bank accounts.
Another case was filed against Salim鈥檚 wife Shamima on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 1.68 crore.
The ACC also decided to issue a notice asking the couple鈥檚 son Md Saklain Mahmud to submit his wealth statement to the commission.