The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 ICT adviser and also her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on charges of amassing assets worth Tk聽60.14 crore beyond known sources of income.
ACC director general Akhtar Hossain at a press briefing said that the commission approved to file the case against Sajeeb Wazed over the graft charges.
The ACC inquiry found that Sajeeb amassed immovable assets worth Tk聽543,920,978 and movable assets worth Tk聽67,884,891.
Including expenses, his total assets amounted to Tk聽611,805,869. In contrast, the acceptable income found was only Tk聽13,208,542 as the amount of his illegal assets stood at Tk聽60.14 crore.
ACC DG Aktar Hossain said that Sajeeb Wazed amassed the assets through abusing his power as public servant when he was ICT adviser to the former prime minister.
鈥楬e laundered money to the United States through using Hundi or other ways and purchased two houses spending Tk聽54.04 crore in the country,鈥� he added.
Sajeeb also conceal information of the Tk聽54.04 crore in his income tax file, said the ACC inquiry report.
Sajeeb also conducted suspicious transactions of Tk聽57.50 crore in his two bank accounts of Sonali bank at Ganabhaban branch in Dhaka between 2000 and 2025.