{"id":56313,"date":"2019-12-10T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=56313"},"modified":"2019-12-13T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T05:56:00","slug":"acc-presses-charges-against-former-cj-sk-sinha-10-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=56313","title":{"rendered":"ACC presses charges against former CJ SK Sinha, 10 others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has pressed a charge sheet against 11 persons, including former Chief Justice SK Sinha, in a case filed under Money Laundering Act.<\/p>\n

Benjir Ahmed, director of the anti-graft body, submitted the charge sheet before the court of Dhaka Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Earlier on December 4, ACC approved the charges against the 11 people for their alleged involvement in embezzling Tk 4 crore from the Farmers Bank (now Padma Bank).<\/p>\n

The 10 others accused are former managing director of Farmers Bank KM Shamim, former senior executive vice president Gazi Salauddin, first vice-president Swapon Kumar Ray, former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty, first vice-president Shafiuddin Askary, vice-president Md Lutful Haque, businessman from Tangail Md Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, Ranjit Chandra Saha and his wife Shanti Roy.<\/p>\n

However, ACC excluded senior vice-president and former branch manager Md Ziauddin Ahmed\u2019s name from the charge sheet as they did not find his involvement in the loan scam.<\/p>\n

On July 10, ACC director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the case against Sinha and 10 others with the anti-graft watchdog\u2019s Dhaka integrated district office-1 at Segunbagicha for allegedly plundering Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank creating fake loan documents to the names of two persons.<\/p>\n

Later, the money was transferred to the account of SK Sinha and the amount was siphoned off.<\/p>\n

SK Sinha sent his resignation letter to Bangabhaban on November 10, 2017 from abroad.<\/p>\n

President Abdul Hamid accepted the resignation of Sinha on November 13, 2017. Currently, Sinha is staying in the United States.<\/p>\n

In October 2018, the ACC revealed that it found \u2018evidence\u2019 of fraudulence, involving transactions of Tk 4 crore borrowed by two businessmen, Shahjahan and Niranjan, from Farmers Bank.<\/p>\n

Later, the ACC started a probe into the allegation. The ACC\u2019s probe found that the money was deposited to the bank account of SK Sinha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has pressed a charge sheet against 11 persons, including former Chief Justice SK Sinha, in a case filed under Money Laundering Act. Benjir Ahmed, director of the anti-graft body, submitted the charge sheet before the court of Dhaka Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes this afternoon. Earlier on December 4, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n