Ex-police official, his wife sued for amassing illegal wealth

Ex-police official, his wife sued for amassing illegal wealth

Chattogram, July 04 - The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed two separate cases against former senior assistant police superintendent Md Abul Hashem and his wife Taherina Begum for allegedly acquiring wealth beyond their known source of income.

Mussabir Ahmed, assistant director of the ACC Integrated Office-2, filed the cases against them on Thursday. Atiqul Alam, deputy director of ACC’s integrated office Chattogram-2, confirmed the matter of the case.

He said, two separate cases were filed against retired Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Md Abul Hashem and his wife Taherina Begum. In both cases, Md. Abul Hashem has been made accused.

According to the case statement, the ACC started an investigation against the following complaints received on the hotline of the ACC in early 2017.

On October 28, 2018, the ACC issued a notice to Abul Hashem and his wife Tahreena to submit their assets. They submitted the wealth statement on November 27 of the same year.

In the wealth statement submitted to the ACC, they concealed the real source of income and failed to show acceptable documents.

According to the case, the couple acquired assets worth Tk 43.32 lakh beyond their known source of income in collusion with each other.

Md Abul Hashem, who was the senior assistant police superintendent, retired from service on October 16, 2022.-UNB