The Anti-Corruption Commission Tuesday sued former BNP lawmaker Hafiz Ibrahim along with his wife Mahruza Sultana, in a money-laundering case, on charges of taking a bribe of $1,75,000 and siphoning off the amount to Singapore.
ACC deputy director Golam Shahriar Chowdhury filed the case with Gulshan police under Money Laundering Prevention Act. The commission will conduct investigation into the case.
In the case, the complainant alleged that Ibrahim took a bribe of $ 1,75,000, from Siemens Bangladesh Limited in exchange for awarding a tender of the then Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board now BTCL (Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited), misusing his power during 2001-2006 regime of the past BNP-Jamaat alliance government.
The BNP lawmaker from Bhola-2 constituency was member of two parliamentary standing committees —planning ministry and information ministry — at that time.
The money was deposited to a joint account of Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore after the name of Ibrahim and his wife. A total of $1,00,000 were deposited on December 19 in 2005 and the rest $75,000 on July 25 in 2006 with the account, the case details said.
The amount was transferred to the account from another joint account after the name of Zulfikar Ali, consultant of Siemens and his wife Rahima Ali.
The ACC in its inquiry also found that Ibrahim and his wife withdrew $3,92,289.15 on July 11 in 2007 and $4,41,312.16 on January 16, 2008 from the account, the case statement said, adding that but, in their wealth statements submitted to the ACC, the couple did not mention about the accounts.
Source : New Age
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