The Anti-Corruption Commission is likely to decide on launching an inquiry against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman for the alleged accumulation of illegal wealth.
Supreme Court lawyer Salah Uddin Reagan submitted an application to聽 the ACC on Thursday along with newspaper reports seeking an inquiry against Asaduzzaman over the graft allegations.
On May 29, the same lawyer also submitted a petition to the ACC seeking an inquiry against former army chief general Aziz Ahmed over allegations of corruption.
But the ACC is yet to take any decision regarding launching a probe against general Aziz Ahmed, who served as the chief of army staff from June 2018 to June 2021 and also led the Border Guard Bangladesh from 2012 to 2016.
The scrutiny cell of the ACC, however, started scrutinising the graft allegations against former DMP chief Asaduzzaman after the allegations against him were published in several newspapers, said an ACC official.
The ACC scrutiny cell, headed by its director general for money laundering, Md Mokammel Haque, has already completed its scrutiny of the allegations and submitted its reports to the commission, he said.
The commission meeting was not held last week as one of its commissioners was aboard, and thus they could not take a decision regarding Asaduzzaman, he said.
However, the commission will take its decision on whether to conduct an inquiry or not at the next meeting, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday.
ACC secretary Khorsheda Yasmeen said they were scrutinising the allegations against Asaduzzaman Mia and would discuss this in the commission鈥檚 next meeting.
The media reported that Asaduzzaman and his family own multiple flats, plots, houses, and land beyond their reasonable sources of income.聽
Besides, Asaduzzaman鈥檚 family took advantage of legalising undisclosed money by investing in the real estate sector and hid information to get a Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha plot.
An official of the National Board of Revenue confirmed to 抖阴精品 that Asaduzzaman Mia鈥檚 daughter, Ayesha Siddika, legalised Tk 1.72 crore by purchasing a flat in 2020.
A Rajuk official confirmed that his wife, Afroza Zaman, got a 7-katha plot under a special provision by violating the rule.
The official of the city development body said that a person who has a plot in the Rajuk area is not eligible to get a plot from Rajuk, but Afroza Zaman hid the information.
According to the official, she has several flats and plots in Dhaka.
Media reports said that there is a house and two flats in Dhaka in the name of the wife of the former Dhaka police chief, and a flat in the name of his daughter.
Apart from this, there are 67 decimals of land in the name of his wife and children in Dhaka, Gazipur, and Narayanganj.
His family members have another 166 decimals of land in these three districts.
Apart from this, there is a flat in the name of Asaduzzaman鈥檚 daughter in Siddheshwari.
Media reports claimed that between 2017 and 2019, a total of 106 decimals of land were bought in the name of Asaduzzaman鈥檚 wife, Afroza Zaman, in Chandkhola mauza, Kaliganj, Gazipur.
Apart from this, in 2018, 28 decimals of land were bought in the name of Afroza in the Kayamsail-Kayetpara mauza of Rupganj, Narayanganj.
In the same year, another 32 decimals of land were bought in her name in the same mauza.
According to the report, Asaduzzaman Mia has a 10-khata plot in Rajuk鈥檚 Purbachal project.
The family has 21 khata of land in Aftabnagar of the capital, while in the name of his son, there is a residential building in the Nikunja-1 area of the capital. He also bought a flat in the Savar area.
Asaduzzaman Mia, however, told 抖阴精品 that the news published against him in a few media outlets alleging illegal acquisition of wealth was false, fabricated, exaggerated, and purposeful.
鈥楴either I nor my family have any assets beyond my declared income and inconsistent with my declared income,鈥� he said.
Asaduzzaman Mia served as DMP commissioner from 2015 to 2019. Later, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Security Cell by the government.
His contract expires in September 2022.