The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a case against three persons, including Lalmonirhat district unit of Awami League Joint General Secretary Sakhawat Hossain Suman Khan and his wife Nahida Aktar Ruma, for alleged money laundering and illegal accumulation of wealth.
Abdul Hay Sarkar, deputy superintendent of district police (CID), filed a case at the Sadar police station yesterday evening (October 31).
He said the AL leader, locally known as Hundi Suman, is the target of allegations of land grabbing, hundi business, smuggling, tender manipulation and other crimes.
The CID officer said that the CID had been investigating him for a long time for hundi activities, money laundering, accumulation of illegal wealth and gold smuggling.
According to the findings of the case, Suman Khan has over Tk 237.59 crore in his bank accounts, his wife Nahida has over Tk 4.39 crore and his staff Harun has over Tk 186.95 crore in bank accounts.
Despite having no legal sources of income, the three transacted huge sums of money through banking channels and other means.
Based on these allegations, proceedings were initiated against them under Art. 4 section 2 of the Money Laundering Act of 2015.
CID official Abdul Hay confirmed that they would conduct the investigation as per the rules and efforts were on to arrest the accused.