The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 25.35 crore.
The ACC also decided to conduct investigations into graft allegations against nine people, including former minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, former IFIC Bank chairman Salman F Rahman, S Alam Group chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam, former National Board of Revenue chairman Md Nazibur Rahman and former lawmaker Md Elias Uddin Mollah.
ACC assistant director Afnan Jannat Keya filed the case against Sadhan with the ACC Integrated District Office in Dhaka-1, said ACC director general Akhtar Hossain at a press briefing on the day.
According to the case statement, there is information about suspicious transactions of Tk 43 crore in Sadhan鈥檚 65 bank accounts in which currently Tk聽3.96 crore is deposited.
It also said the huge amount of money was suspicious, which was acquired 鈥榯hrough bribery and corruption鈥� while he was serving as the minister.
To legalise or hide the source of the money, he made various transactions in the name of his various business establishments through the bank accounts, said the case statement.
During the inquiry, the ACC found illegal wealth worth Tk 25.35 crore, including a 4,475-square-foot flat at Dhanmondi and 5 kathas of land at Uttara in Dhaka, business capital, cars, FDRs, gold ornaments, furniture, banks and cash capital.
Sadhan was a four-term lawmaker of the Awami League since 2008. He served as the food minister from 2019 to August 2024.
After the fall of the AL government amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5, the former minister was arrested in connection with various cases and he is now in jail.
The ACC decided to conduct an enquiry against former minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader and former secretary ABM Aminullah Nuri over allegations of corruption in the purchase of 137 passenger buses.
The ACC decided to conduct an enquiry against former chairman of IFIC Bank and former lawmaker Salman F Rahman and the bank鈥檚 former managing director Shah Alam Sarwar over allegations of embezzling Tk 1,907 crore from the bank in the name of loans.
The ACC also started another enquiry against S Alam Group chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam and his sons Ashraful Alam and Asadul Alam over allegations of legalising Tk 500 crore through forgery, dodging Tk 75 crore tax of the government.
The commission also initiated an enquiry against former Dhaka-16 lawmaker Md Elias Uddin Mollah over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through grabbing government land and abusing power.
The ACC also decided to investigate former NBR chairman Md Nazibur Rahman over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption, including taking bribes for the transfer of officials during his tenure as the revenue board chairman.