Lalmonirhat AL leader, 2 others sued for money laundering

Lalmonirhat dist AL Joint General Secretary Sakhawat Hossain Suman Khan

Lalmonirhat, Nov 01 -The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed a case against three people including Lalmonirhat district unit of Awami League Joint General Secretary Sakhawat Hossain Suman Khan and his wife Nahida Aktar Ruma for allegedly laundering money and amassing wealth illegally.

Abdul Hay Sarkar, assistant superintendent of police (CID) in the district, filed the case with Sadar police station on Thursday night.

There are allegations of land grabbing, hundi business, smuggling, tender manipulation and others against the AL leader, locally known as Hundi Suman, he said.

The CID has long been investigating him on the hundi business, money laundering, amassment of illegal wealth, gold smuggling, the CID official said.

According to the case disposition, Suman Khan has over Tk 237.59 crore in his bank accounts, his wife Nahida owns over Tk 4.39 crore and his staff Harun holds over Tk 186.95 crore in their bank accounts.

Despite having no legal sources of income, the three transacted the huge amounts of money through banking channels and other means.

Based on these allegations, the case was filed against them under Section 4(2) of the Money Laundering Act of 2015.

CID official Abdul Hay confirmed that they will conduct the investigation according to regulations, and efforts are underway to apprehend the accused.-UNB