The Anti-Corruption Commission has found suspicious transactions involving Tk 25,160 crore through bank accounts of Brahammandi union parishad chairman Md Luck Mia, his wife and one of his staff at Araihazar in Narayanganj.
Luck Mia was known as a close aide of former Awami League lawmaker from the Narayanganj-2 constituency Nazrul Islam Babu, according to locals.
Luck Mia is involved with the AL politics, and he is an executive committee member of the Araihazar upazila Awami League.
The anti-graft agency in an inquiry found that there were transactions worth Tk 14,376 crore in 49 bank accounts of Luck Mia and transactions worth Tk 461 crore in 14 bank accounts of his wife Mahmuda Begum.
The ACC also found transactions worth Tk 10,322 crore in 14 bank accounts of Luck Mia鈥檚 staff Md Mohsin Mollah.
Mohsin was appointed by Luck Mia with monthly salary of Tk 12,000.
Despite being a staff of UP chairman Luck Mia, Mohsin is managing director of two entities 鈥� NRB Textile Mills Limited and M/S NRB Traders Limited.
The ACC on Thursday filed two separate cases against Luck Mia and his wife Mahmuda on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
The commission also decided to conduct another inquiry against Luck Mia鈥檚 staff Mohsin and his family members.
ACC director general (prevention) Md Akhtar Hossain at a press briefing said that the commission filed the two cases with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, accusing Luck Mia and his wife of amassing illegal wealth.
Of the two cases, ACC deputy director Sohanur Rahman filed a case against Luck Mia on charges of amassing illegal assets worth Tk 55.23 crore and suspicious transactions of Tk 14,376 crore.
The case statement said Luck Mia acquired these illegal assets between 1990 and 2024.
ACC assistant director Ashiqur Rahman filed a case against Mahmuda, accusing her of acquiring Tk 14.50 crore beyond known source of income and suspicious transactions of Tk 461.17 crore.
According to ACC officials, the transactions of over Tk 25,000 crore in the bank accounts of the three people took place between the 2014-15 financial year and the 2023-24 financial year.
Luck Mia, his wife and his staff conducted the transactions through their 77 bank accounts in the Premier Bank, Janata Bank and National Bank.
After the fall of the AL government on August 5, 2024 in a mass uprising, Luck Mia went into hiding, but later, he was arrested by the joint forces during the Operation Devil Hunt on February 25 from near Kanchan bridge at Rupganj.
Luck Mia is an accused in a number of cases filed on charges of murder during the student-led mass uprising in July-August in 2024.
ACC officials said that Luck Mia was involved in various types of corruption, including bribery, extortion and abuse of power in the Araihazar area.
During the inquiry, the ACC summoned him four times to appear at the ACC, but he ignored three summons and appeared at the ACC headquarters to face interrogation on the fourth summon, said ACC officials.
The ACC inquiry team also found a cotton mill owned by Luck Mia in Narayanganj, but when ACC officials went to visit the mill recently, they failed to do so due to obstruction by people of the mill.
ACC officials said that Luck Mia bought about 600 bighas of land and 265 bighas of land have already been seized by the ACC.