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DHAKA, Sept 11, 2025 (BSS) - The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed two separate cases against AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a former judge of the Appellate Division of the Suprime Court, on charges of acquiring illegal assets, money laundering and grabbing plots of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipokka (RAJUK) through fraudulence.
The anti-graft watchdog ACC Director General (Prevention) Md Akhter Hossain told journalists that the two cases were filed at its integrated district office (Dhaka-1) in Segunbagicha here today.
ACC Deputy Assistant Director Abdullah Al Mamun filed two cases as the plaintiff in this connection.
About cases’ dockets, he said Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has been accused in abusing his power while serving as a judge, acquiring ownership of wealth worth over Taka 53.96 crore which was inconsistent with the known source of his income, keeping them in his possession and smuggling the money abroad through transfer, conversion and transfer.
The case has been filed under Section 27(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004 and Sections 4(2) and 4(3) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2012 and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947.
On the other hand, seven people, including AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, have been accused in the RAJUK plot fraudulence case.
The other accused in the case are wife of former Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal (Kashmiri Kamal), former RAJUK chairman Engineer Md Nurul Huda, RAJUK members - Abu Bakkar Sikder, M Mahbubul Alam, former chairman GM Joynal Abedin Bhuiyan and former RAJUK member Abdul Hye.
The accused, in collusion, abused their power and fraudulently submitted false affidavits and possessed the plot allotted to the original allottee in the Purbachal New Town project of RAJUK, it is alleged in the case.
