Former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor Sitanshu Kumar (SK) Sur has been shown arrested in a seven-year-old Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) case linked to the Hall-Mark Group involving Tk13.5 crore in alleged money laundering.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Partha Bhadra issued the arrest order on Monday upon an application by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) investigators.
SK Sur was brought to the court from jail earlier in the day.
Financial Crime Unit Inspector Sayedur Rahman, the investigation officer, requested the court to show him arrested as a suspect in the case.
Sur, who had no legal representation during the hearing, told the court he was unaware of the charges against him. The magistrate, after listening to his statement, ordered his formal arrest and return to jail custody.
Detectives arrested SK Sur at Shahjalal International Airport on January 14 in another ACC case.
Monday's arrest application detailed that from June 26, 2010, to November 28, 2012, Tushar Ahmed, Mohammad Aslam Uddin, and Suman Bhuiyan — all affiliated with Hallmark Group — allegedly engaged in suspicious transactions to obscure the illegal source of Tk13.5 crore.
According to case statements, Tushar, then Hallmark's GM (Commercial), and Aslam, another employee, operated several bank accounts in Dhaka Bank for laundering the funds.
During their tenure, their monthly salaries ranged from Tk10,000 to Tk50,000, which did not align with the large-scale financial transactions detected.
At the time of the Hallmark loan scam, SK Sur was serving as the deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank.
Investigators are now probing his role in the financial irregularities under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The case was filed by ACC Deputy Assistant Director Muhammad Joynal Abedin. Further investigation is ongoing.
