The Anti Corruption Commission has sued former Chief Justice SK Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha over allegations of embezzlement and laundering of nearly $300,000.
Deputy Director Md Gulshan Anwar Pradhan filed the case under the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2012 with its Integrated District Office-1 in Dhaka on Thursday.
According to the case documents, SK Sinha and his brother stand accused of embezzling and siphoning off $280,000 from Bangladesh through various American banks.
The ACC will take necessary measures to investigate the matter and take into account if anyone else is involved in the matter.
Justice Sinha, currently residing in the US, has already been sentenced to 11 years in prison in a previous charge of money laundering .
In November last year, a Dhaka court found him guilty of laundering Tk4 crore taken in credit from the Farmers Bank, now known as the Padma Bank.
A month before that verdict, the ACC filed another case against the former top judge accusing him of abuse of office involving land plots allotted to him and a member of his family from the Dhaka city development authority (Rajuk).
According to details of the case that started in October 2021, Justice Sinha abused his office to get himself allotted a five-katha land plot at the capital’s Uttara Residential Area, where he constructed a nine-storey building.
ACC Secretary Anwar Hossain Hawlader told the media at the time that he paid Rajuk Tk7.5 lakh for the plot where he constructed a building ,spending Tk6.13 crore.
Sinha also abused his office to allot a three-katha plot at the Rahuk’s Purbachal Housing Project for his brother Narendra Kumar Sinha, according to the ACC.
