A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha to 11 years in prison in a case involving the laundering of Tk4 crore taken as loans from a bank.
The ACC in October 2018 said the commission found evidence of fraud involving transactions of Tk4 crore borrowed with fake documents by two businessmen, Shahjahan and Niranjan, from the Farmers Bank (now Padma Bank). Later, the money was deposited in Justice Sinha’s account.
On July 10, 2019, ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the case against Justice Sinha and 10 others with its Integrated District Office-1 in Dhaka.
On December 8 the same year, ACC director Md Benjir Ahammad, also investigation officer of the case, pressed charges against the accused.
On August 13 last year, the court started the trial and framed charges against the accused in the corruption case.
Justice Sinha resigned from his post on November 11, 2017, from abroad. He is now in the USA.
