ACC finds Monir’s illegal wealth worth Tk 610cr-Investigation Officer DD Mamunur Rashid Choudhury
February 14, 2024
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ACC finds Monir’s illegal wealth worth Tk 610cr
Staff Correspondent | Published: 23:46, Nov 24,2020
Monir Hossain
The Anti-Corruption Commission in its preliminary inquiry has detected that businessman Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir, possesses illegal wealth worth Tk 610 crore and his wife has Tk 5.5 crore in illegal wealth.
After detecting the illegal wealth, an ACC team, led by deputy director M Samsul Alam, submitted a report to the commission with a proposal for issuing notices to Monir and his wife Rawshan Akter asking them to submit their wealth statements to the commission, an ACC director told New Age.
He said that most of the wealth of Monir was invested in land plots in Dhaka and its adjacent areas.
He said that several inquiries had been launched against Monir since last year and all of them were merged by the two-member team following his arrest.
The other member of the committee is assistant director Mamunur Rashid Chowdhury.
Earlier on Monday, the National Board of Revenue sought bank account information of Monir, his wife, son Rafy Hossain, mother Ayesha Begum and his business entities from banks and financial institutions to check his tax payment status.
His business firms include Auto Car Selection, Gulf Auto Cars Ltd, Monir Builders Ltd, Golden Gear and Monir Trading International.
The Central Intelligence Cell of the revenue board sent separate letters to banks and financial institutions asking them to submit within seven days transaction information of the people in the seven years since July 2013.
The NBR also froze their accounts.
In the letter, the CIC asked the banks and financial institutions to provide information about all types of savings, current and loan accounts, FDR, debit and credit cards and locker and vault operated in the period by the people in single or joint names and by the firms.
The CIC usually seeks the information when it suspects tax evasion by an individual or a firm.
On Monday, the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha formed a five-member committee to identify the officials who helped Monir to become the owner of 202 plots of land in different housing projects of Rajuk.
Rajuk officials said that Monir bought 192 plots in the Badda housing project, seven plots at Purbachal New Model Town, two plots in Uttara and another 70-katha plot in Nikunja-2 between 2001 and 2006, when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance was in power.
The total value of these plots is over Tk 1,000 crore, they said.
The Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday arrested Monir after getting a report from an agency.
On Sunday, the police took Monir for an 18-day remand after showing him arrested in three separate cases with the Badda police station.
Link:https://www.newagebd.net/article/122541/acc-finds-monirs-illegal-wealth-worth-tk-610cr
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