The Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Saturday sent Masud Biswas, the former chief of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, to jail in a case filed against him on charge of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 1.87 crore.
Metropolitan magistrate Masuma Rahman passed the order after the Anti-Corruption Commission produced him before the court seeking an order to send him to jail.
The ACC will produce him before a Dhaka court on Sunday with a remand petition to interrogate the accused in the graft case, said an ACC official.
Masud Biswas was arrested by the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police at his residence in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area on Friday night in the case following a request of the ACC, said ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam.
After his arrest, the law enforcement agency handed him over to the ACC on Saturday afternoon to a team of ACC led by its deputy director, Gulshan Anwar Pradhan.
On January 2, the ACC filed a case against the former BFIU chief Masud on charges of acquiring illegal assets worth Tk 1.87 crore.
The commission also sought the wealth statement of Masud Biswas鈥檚 wife, Kamrun Nahar, over allegations of amassing illegal assets.
Earlier in September, the commission started an inquiry into allegations of corruption, including money laundering, against Masud Biswas, who resigned from his post after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
