The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to file two separate cases against Faisal Karim Masud, the prime accused in the murder of Sharif Osman Hadi, on allegations of money laundering and acquiring assets beyond his known sources of income.
The commission has also decided to name two officials of Mutual Trust Bank as accused in one of the cases and order Faisal’s wife, Shaheda Parveen Samia, to submit a statement of her assets.
ACC Deputy Director and Public Relations Officer Aktarul Islam disclosed the decisions on Monday.
In the first case, Faisal will be accused along with Md Saiful Islam, executive officer of Mutual Trust Bank’s Rupnagar branch and Md Sarwar Hossain, a relationship officer at the same branch.
According to the ACC, the accused allegedly prepared a fake tender notice and used it to involve two other companies in a joint venture. They later collected a Tk95.69 lakh pay order as tender security from a participant.
The commission alleged that the money was embezzled through fraudulent activities, including opening a privately owned bank account in the name of a government institution with the assistance of the bank officials.
The ACC further alleged that the money was initially deposited into an account of a company owned by Faisal, then transferred to another account in his name at NRB Commercial Bank, and finally placed in an FDR at the bank’s Benarshi Palli sub-branch in his wife Shaheda Parveen Samia’s name.
Aktarul Islam said the case would be filed under the Penal Code, the Money Laundering Prevention Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, on allegations of facilitating money-laundering offences and illegally acquiring, transferring, possessing or enjoying illicit assets.
In the second case, the ACC has decided to accuse Faisal of acquiring and possessing assets worth Tk1.94 crore beyond his known sources of income.
According to the ACC, Shaheda Parveen Samia, wife of Faisal Karim Masud, allegedly holds Tk65 lakh worth of assets beyond her known sources of income. Instead of filing a case against her immediately, the commission has decided to order her to submit a statement of assets under the ACC Act.
