Former Additional Inspector General of Police (Additional IGP) Dr. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a charge sheet against Shamsuddoha Khandkar and his wife Ferdowsi Sultana in the case of illegal acquisition of wealth.
According to the chargesheet, their ‘criminal’ income is Rs 62 crore. His wife’s income from crime is more than Shamsuddoha’s, amounting to Tk 41 crore. Shamsuddohar’s proceeds of crime is Tk 21 crore.
This information was obtained from ACC sources. In the court of Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Mohammad Assamach Jaglul Hossain, the investigating officer of the case ACC Assistant Director Khorshed Alam submitted the charge sheet on Tuesday.
In 2018, the ACC began investigating allegations of illegal wealth acquisition by police officer Shamsuddoha and his wife. ACC filed a case against them in 2019 after finding the truth of the allegation of acquiring wealth outside of known income. After five years of investigation, two separate charge sheets were submitted against the two in the court of the senior special judge of Dhaka city on Tuesday.
ACC said in the charge sheet, Shamsuddoha resorted to corruption by abusing his power while he was a government official. He premeditated to legitimize the illegal income earned through corruption. Much more money than his own salary and allowances is deposited in various bank accounts opened in the name of his wife Ferdowsi Sultana. His wife is a housewife. The amount of money deposited as wife’s bank account is 41 crore 29 lakh more than his salary. And 21 crore 5 lakh taka is deposited as shamsuddohar bank.
According to ACC sources, the former police officer was the chairman of BIWTA. During his service he made huge money through corruption by abuse of power. These funds are of dubious origin according to various Scheduled Banks doing inconsistent and unusual transactions. In this process, after depositing Tk 21 crore 5 lakh 25 thousand as bank, he has tried to hide his position nature, source, ownership by various processes.
ACC has traced the huge wealth of former IGP of Police Benazir Ahmed and his family. Those assets have been seized by court order. In the meantime, the charge sheet was given against the former Additional IGP Shamsuddoha.