Staff Reporter:
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed three separate cases against former Tongi sub-registrar Md. Nurul Amin Talukdar, his wife Nurunnahar Khanam, and their daughter Zinat Talukdar accusing them of amassing Tk 11.55 crore and being involved in suspicious financial transactions worth around Tk 32 crore.
The cases were filed on Tuesday at the ACC’s Tangail Integrated District Office, Deputy Director Md. Akhtarul Islam said.
According to the case statements, Nurul Amin Talukdar concealed information about assets worth TK 1.03 crore in his wealth statement.
He also abused his official power and acquired TK 41.43 lakh in assets beyond his known sources of income, keeping those under his possession.
Besides, his wife Nurunnahar Khanam allegedly concealed information of assets worth about Tk 5.17 crore and provided false information in her wealth statement.
The ACC alleges that these assets were obtained with her husband’s illegally earned money.
Their daughter Zinat Talukdar has also been accused of possessing TK 1.84 crore in illegal assets.
During the investigation, the ACC found that Nurunnahar Khanam maintained 23 bank accounts through which about TK 30 crore suspicious transactions took place.
Besides, she operated five bank accounts that saw around Tk 1.74 crore in suspicious financial transac-tions.
Nurul Amin Talukdar has been made an accused in all three cases.
The cases were filed under sections 26(2) and 27(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004, sec-tions 4(2) and 4(3) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012, and section 109 of the Penal Code.
