The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday submitted a charge sheet against an Awami League leader in a case filed on charges of accumulating illegal wealth worth Tk聽1.36 crore.
Investigation officer Amir Hossain, assistant director of the ACC Rajshahi integrated office (now posted to Pirojpur integrated office), submitted the charge sheet to the Rajshahi Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Tuesday morning, confirmed Rajshahi ACC lawyer Bazle Towhid Al Hasan Babla.
Earlier on August 1 in 2023, Aminul Islam, deputy director of the ACC Rajshahi divisional office, filed the case against Atikur, also president of Rajshahi city AL Boalia thana unit, under the sections 26 (2) and 27 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2004 and sections 4 (2) of the Money Laundering Act 2012 on charges of accumulating illegal wealth worth Tk 1.47 crore and providing false information to the commission by hiding his actual assets worth Tk 1.53 crore.
According to the case statement, Atikur Rahman Kalu, also the lessee of Rajshahi City Hat, submitted his income statement to the commission on January 15, 2023 stating that he had his moveable and immoveable assets worth Tk 9,61,50,917.
The ACC, however, found his movable and immovable assets worth Tk聽11,14,57,437.
The commission also found his assets of Tk聽1,36 ,55,183 for which he failed to show any legal source of income.
