Hearing on fee framing on Aug 13
A Dhaka court fixed August 13 for hearing on framing costs against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 other folks in a funds laundering circumstance filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Judge Nazum Alam of Dhaka Particular Judges Courtroom-4 on Monday set the time after resumption of standard operations of High Courtroom Division.
The other accused in the case are Gazi Salahuddin, senior executive vice president and former head of credit division, Swapan Kumar Roy, first vice president (Credit rating division), Shafiuddin Askari Ahmed and Md Lutful Haque, first vice presidents of the Gulshan Corporate Branch of the Farmers Bank, M Mahbubul Haque Chisti, entrepreneur director and chairman of Audit Committee of the Farmers Bank, and Mohammad Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, Santri Roy Simi and Ranjit Chandra Saha.
On July 10, 2019, ACC filed the case on charge of misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank in 2016.
Sinha, continued leave on October 2, 2017, and left for Australia on October 13 amid dispute above a few of his observations over the 16th Amendment verdict.
A day time after Sinha’s departure to Australia, the Supreme Courtroom issued a affirmation saying he was facing 11 charges, including graft, moral turpitude and money laundering.
On November 11, 2017, Sinha resigned from his post of chief justice.
