Staff Reporter :
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a money laundering case worth Tk 100 crore against Jahangir Alam, popularly known as “Pani Jahangir,” a former office peon of the Prime Minister’s Office during the tenure of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina.
The CID disclosed the information in an official press release issued on Friday, stating that substantial evidence of illegal financial transactions
had been found during the preliminary investigation conducted by its Financial Crime Unit.
According to the release, the case was lodged under Sections 4(2) and 4(4) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012 (Amended 2015) at Chatkhil Police Station in Noakhali district.
Investigators revealed that Jahangir Alam, born into a lower-middle-class family in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali, began his career as a daily-wage employee at the National Parliament Secretariat.
After the Awami League came to power in 2009, he briefly served as a “personal assistant” at the Prime Minister’s Office—a position that allegedly opened the door to his financial enrichment, according to the preliminary inquiry.
In 2010, Jahangir established a company named Sky Re Arrange Limited, which officially operated as a distributor for mobile financial services platform bKash.
However, investigators said the company was used to mask numerous suspicious banking transactions.
CID findings show that between 2010 and 2024, over Tk 565 crore was transacted through multiple bank accounts under the company’s name.
A large portion of these funds was deposited in cash from various parts of the country, with no verifiable source of income.
The transactions were found to be inconsistent with the declared business operations, suggesting possible links to hundi (illegal money transfer) and cross-border money laundering activities.
The probe further uncovered that Jahangir Alam conducted these illegal financial operations with the assistance of his wife, Kamrun Nahar, and his brother, Monir Hossain.
Both were allegedly involved in managing the accounts and facilitating fund transfers.
According to CID sources, Jahangir and his wife fled to the United States in June 2024 and are currently residing in Virginia.
Although they reportedly made investments and purchased assets abroad, no official authorization for overseas investment or fund transfer was found in their names.
The investigation has so far confirmed that Jahangir Alam, along with his wife, brother, and Sky Re Arrange Limited, collectively laundered approximately Tk 100 crore to foreign destinations between 2010 and 2024.
The CID stated that its investigation and operations are ongoing to trace the full network of associates, identify other beneficiaries, and bring them under legal action.
