The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday lodged three cases against former sub-registrar of Tongi Md Nurul Amin Talukder, his wife Nurunnahar Khatun and daughter Jinat Talukder for corruption and money laundering.
Deputy director of the public relations department of the ACC Md Akhter Hossain disclosed the information to the media while talking to the journalists at his office in Dhaka.
The commission filed the first case against Nurul Amin for acquiring illegal wealth worth about Tk 41,43,585 while he was the sub-registrar in Tongi. He suppressed information of his wealth worth about Tk 1,03,83,547 in his wealth statement that was contrary to his known sources of income.
The second case was lodged against Nurunnahar and his husband Nurul Amin alleging that they in connivance with each other earned worth about Tk 9,28,79,697 through corruption. Nurunnahar made suspicious transactions of Tk nearly 30 crore through her 23 bank accounts.
The third case was filed against Jinat and her father Nurul Amin alleging that Jinat Talukder acquired Tk 1.84 crore from her father鈥檚 illegal income and hide information of about Tk 9,15,000 in her wealth statement. She also made suspected transactions of Tk 1.74 crore through her five bank accounts.
The commission lodged these cases under section 26(2) and 27(1) of the ACC Act-2004, sub-sections 2 and 3 under section 4 of the Money Laundering Prevention Act-2012 and section 109 of Bangladesh Penal Code.