News Desk ;
The ACC filed a case against former Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs Md Harun-or-Rashid Biswas for acquiring illegal wealth and making suspicious financial transactions.
Director General (DG) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Md Akhter Hossain disclosed the information to media at a briefing at the commission’s headquarters in the city’s Segunbagicha area.
The ACC DG said that the former additional secretary acquired and possessed illegal wealth worth about Taka over 5.37 crore that is contrary to his known source of income, reports BSS.
Harun and his wife also made suspicious transactions of Taka over 57.70 crore through nine bank accounts of their business establishments.
According to the ACC, the legal income of Md Harur-or-Rashid was Taka nearly 3.50 crore but they found his wealth worth over Taka 8.96 crore.
According to his last year’s tax return, his net wealth was worth about Taka over 7.17 crore, the DG added.
The ACC filed the case against him under section-27(1) of the ACC Act-2004, sub sections-2 and 3 under section-4 of the Money Laundering Prevention Act-2012 and section 5(2) of the Corruption Prevention Act-1947.
