The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Mihir Kumar Ghosh, an office assistant-cum-computer numismatist of Brahmanbaria's Bijoynagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) office and his wife Shilpi Rani Ghosh, on charges of concealment of wealth information and acquisition of assets beyond known income.
Deputy Assistant Director Md Imran Khan filed two separate cases in their name at the Comilla district office of the ACC on Wednesday afternoon.
The accused Mihir Kumar Ghosh, 51 and his wife Shilpi Rani Ghosh, 42, are residents of Maurail area of the Comilla city.
Mihir was former office assistant of in the office of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Nasirnagar upazila. He is currently working in the same position in Bijoynagar.
Mihir was accused in one case and in another case he along with his wife were accused.
Former NBR official sued in graft caseAccording to the statement of Shilpi and Mihir's case, in 2019, the ACC got preliminary information about the corruption relatedto Shilpi and Mihir after the investigation.
According to section 26 (1) of the ACC Act 2004, the ACC issued a notice on August 16, 2021, asking them for the statement of assets.
On September 9, 2021, they sent the asset statement to the Comilla Integrated Office of the ACC.
Among them, in the assets statement submitted by Shilpi, she mentioned the immovable assets of Tk36.66 lakh and the movable assets of Tk15.68 lakh.
But while verifying the asset statement, the ACC found the information of the acquisition of immovable assets of Tk39.56 lakh and movable assets of Tk15.68 lakh. Family and other expenses were found Tk8.26 lakh. ACC found a total wealth of Tk63.50 lakh in her name including family and immovable assets.
She opened income tax returns for the tax year 2010-11. At that time the income from household wealth and business was Tk34.75 lakh. Inconsistency of assets is found with known income. The amount of her known non-income assets is Tk28.74 lakh. She mentioned assets of Tk52.34 lakh in the asset declaration, but ACC found Tk55.24 lakh in the investigation.
She has hidden the information of assets of Tk2.89 lakh in the asset statement.
Similarly, Mihir Kumar has given false information in the asset declaration submitted to the ACC.
Along with this, he has committed an offense punishable under section 26(2) of the ACC Act-2004 by concealing the information of assets of Tk3.76 lakh
The ACC official Imran Khan said: "A case has been filed against Mihir Kumar and his wife Shilpi Rani for obtaining wealth outside of known income with concealment of wealth information."
