The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charge-sheets in two cases against former Detective Branch (DB) chief Md Harun-or-Rashid and his brother ABM Shahriar over allegations of acquiring assets beyond their known sources of income and money laundering.
ACC Assistant Director of the Public Relations Department Md Tanzir Ahmed disclosed the information to the media on Wednesday.
According to the ACC, its Dhaka-1 Integrated District Office filed a case against Harun-or-Rashid on December 17, 2024. The investigation found evidence that he had acquired assets worth about Tk21.28 crore. His legitimate income, after deducting expenses, was found to be Tk1,29,15,006. The ACC consequently found evidence of Tk19,98,94,599 in assets acquired beyond his known sources of income.
In another case, Harun-or-Rashid and his brother ABM Shahriar were named as accused. The ACC said it found evidence that Shahriar had acquired Tk18,28,07,555 in assets beyond his known sources of income.
The investigation also found evidence of asset transfers and money laundering. According to the ACC, Shahriar received 1,850 decimals, or approximately 18.5 acres, of land from Harun through a gift deed (heba).
The commission said the cases were investigated by Mohammad Zainal Abedin, deputy director at the ACC headquarters. During the investigation, the authorities reviewed the accused persons’ movable and immovable assets, income tax records and bank transactions.
The ACC said evidence was found not only of acquiring assets beyond known sources of income, but also of concealing the illegal sources of proceeds of crime and laundering money through the transfer, movement and conversion of assets.
Charge-sheets against Harun-or-Rashid were filed under Section 27(1) of the ACC Act, 2004; Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947; and Sections 4(2) and 4(3) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012.
Shahriar was charged under the same provisions, along with Section 109 of the Penal Code.