ACC files five cases in Khulna against five people including former MP Rashiduzzaman
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed five separate cases against five people, including Khulna-6 former MP Md Rashiduzzaman, former Khulna City Corporation (KCC) councillor Memory Sufia Rahman Shunu and her husband, Khulna metropolitan Awami League organising secretary Sheikh Md Faruk Ahmed.
On Monday (October 26) afternoon, Md Zahid Fazal, assistant director of the ACC's integrated district office in Khulna, filed three of the cases as plaintiff, while deputy assistant director Ashikur Rahman filed the other two.
In the first case, former MP Md Rashiduzzaman is accused of acquiring assets worth Tk 75.90 lakh inconsistent with his known sources of income.
In a separate case, Awami League leader Sheikh Md Faruk Ahmed is accused of acquiring illegal assets worth Tk 1.17 crore by using his party position.
The ACC filed another case against former councillor Memory Sufia Rahman Shunu for acquiring, with her husband's help, assets worth Tk 36.91 lakh inconsistent with her known sources of income and keeping them in her own ownership. Her husband Faruk Ahmed has also been made an accused in this case for directly and indirectly assisting the acquisition of the assets in his wife's name.
The accused in the other two cases are Bidhan Kumar Bhandari, former director general of the Soil Resources Development Institute, and his wife Doli Bhandari.
Bidhan Kumar Bhandari is accused of acquiring assets worth Tk 73 lakh inconsistent with his known income, while a separate case was filed against Doli Bhandari for keeping and enjoying illegal assets worth Tk 1.08 crore acquired by her husband. Bidhan Kumar Bhandari has been made an accused in two cases and Doli Bhandari in one.
