A court in Dhaka has fixed Nov 11 as the date for submission of a probe report over the corruption charges against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 11 others for embezzlement and money laundering.
Dhaka Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes issued the order on Wednesday (Oct 2) after as the investigating officer failed to submit it.
Others accused in the case are: former Farmers Bank managing director AKM Shameem, first vice-presidents Swapan Kumar Roy and Shafiuddin Askaree, senior executive vice-presidents Gazi Salauddin and Ziauddin Ahmed, and vice-president M Lutful Haque, bank clients Md Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, his uncle Ranajit Chandra Saha, and Ranajit’s wife, Santree Roy.
According to the case details, Md Shahjahan and Niranjan took a Tk 40 million loan from then Farmers Bank, which was later transferred to Justice Sinha’s Sonali Bank account, showing it was acquired by selling his (Sinha’s) house.