Benazir Ahmed withdrew 13 crore taka from the bank in one week

Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and his family members withdrew Tk 12 crore 73 lakh from Community Bank and Sonali Bank in eight days before leaving the country. This information has been mentioned in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) progress report prepared for the High Court.

ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan today Monday Justice Md. Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat Hossain are scheduled to submit the progress report to the High Court bench.
On April 22, the ACC started investigating the assets of Benazir Ahmed and his family abroad. This investigation shows that Benazir and his family members withdrew Tk 12 crore 73 lakh from Community Bank and Sonali Bank in eight days from April 23 to 30.
Benazir Ahmed, his wife Zeeshan Mirza, daughter Farheen Rishta bint Benazir, Ms Tahsin Raisa bint Benazir and Ms Zahra Zareen bint Benazir were in the country till May 3. The next day they left for Singapore.
According to the progress report of the ACC, the information of billions of rupees transactions is available in 116 banks in the name of Benazir and his family members. It also contains information on many unusual transactions. Bank accounts include current, savings, fixed deposits, foreign exchange accounts.
In the investigation, the accounts of Benazir and his family members at the corporate branch of the community bank were reviewed. It can be seen that a huge amount of money has been withdrawn from all those accounts as soon as the day after the start of the ACC investigation. Benazir and his family members withdrew Tk 12 crore 73 lakh 78 thousand 968 from the current accounts of Community Bank and Sonali Bank in eight days from April 23 to 30. Out of this, Tk 6 crore 52 lakh 78 thousand 968 was withdrawn from three accounts of Community Bank corporate branch between 23 and 29 April. This money was withdrawn from one account of Benazir Ahmed, one of his wife and one of his elder daughter in this bank.
Apart from this, Tk 3 crore and Tk 3 crore 7 lakh were withdrawn on April 29 and April 30 from the current account of Southern Business Initiative from the local branch of Sonali Bank. 14 lakh taka was withdrawn on April 30 from the current account of Savannah Farm Products owned by Benazir.

According to the ACC investigation, there are land, houses, flats, plots, resorts and bungalows in the names of Benazir Ahmed, his wife and three daughters in Dhaka District, Dhaka Metropolis, Narayanganj, Gopalganj, Madaripur, Gazipur, Cox's Bazar, Khulna. On the application of the ACC investigation officer, the Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge ordered the seizure and freezing of their known non-income assets of Tk 43 crore 46 lakh 72 thousand 152 in four stages.

According to the progress report, Benazir Ahmed has earned 1 crore 84 lakh 89 thousand taka in terms of salary and allowance during his working life. But through abuse of power, irregularities and corruption during his service, he became the owner of thousands of rupees.

A special team of the ACC is probing the allegations against Benazir and his family members for acquiring wealth beyond known income. Deputy Director of ACC Head Office. The other two members of the team headed by Hafizul Islam are Assistant Director Muhammad Zainal Abedin and Muhammad Neyamul Ahsan Ghazi. ACC Director (Money Laundering) Golam Shahriar Chowdhury is supervising the investigation