The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday conducted a drive at the residence of former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor Sitanshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury and recovered Tk 16.25 lakh in聽 cash, savings certificates and insurance papers worth Tk 4.45 crore.
The drive was conducted at SK Sur鈥檚 residence in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi, led by ACC director Kazi Saemuzzaman, said ACC director general (prevention) Aktar Hossain.
Kazi Saemuzzaman said that they recovered Tk 16.25 lakh cash, and savings certificates and insurance papers worth about Tk 4.45 crore during the drive.
Apart from this, the ACC team also found information of his three flats.
On January 14, the ACC arrested SK Sur Chowdhury and he was sent to jail by a Dhaka court in connection with a case filed against him on December 23, 2024 on charges of non-submission of wealth statement to the ACC.
The ACC began investigating SK Sur Chowdhury in 2022 after his name came in the much-talked PK Halder financial scam.
SK Sur Chowdhury retired from the post of deputy governor in January 2018.