The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday approved the chargesheet of a case against former Roads and Highways Department (RHD) chief engineer Md Firoz Iqbal and his wife Fahmida Nilufar on charges of amassing illegal wealth beyond their legal sources of income.
ACC officials told UNB that ACC Deputy Director Shaheen Ara Momotaj filed the case with the Dhaka coordinated office -1 on December 30,2019.
The case was filed under section 26 (2), 27 (1) of Anti-Corruption Act-2004 and section 4 (2) (3) of Money Laundering act-2012.
The RHD official amassed Tk64.67 lakh beyond his known sources of income and transferred money in different ways to hide the sources and location of money.
According to the case statement, ACC found that Firoz Iqbal and his wife Fahmida Nilufar amassed Tk2.36,05,988 in movable and immovable wealth. He tried to show a legitimate source for Tk1,67,38,952 of his income but did not have any source backing the rest.
Investigation revealed that the rest of Tk 64,67,036 was amassed illegally, which is a punishable offense under the ACC act 2012.