The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is preparing a case against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar (SK) Sinha under the Money Laundering Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The company wants to bring him back to the country for further investigation.
In 2018, the ACC launched an investigation against SK Sinha and his younger brother on charges of money laundering abroad. SK Sinha's younger brother Ananta Kumar Sinha bought a house in New Jersey in June of that year. The ACC found out that Ananta had bought the house with a loan of about two lakh dollars for one and a half lakh dollars. Around the same time, Anant Kumar Sinha bought another house at a cost of about three lakh dollars.
It is learned that from April 11 to June 20, 2018, about 2 lakh dollars were deposited in the account of Ananta Sinha in the Valley National Bank of New Jersey, USA. From March 5 to May 28 of that year, about 60,000 more came to the same bank, the same account, from Indonesia and Canada. Younger brother Ananta took SK Sinha to the Valley National Bank to collect a check for about 1.5 million. The ACC says the money belonged to Sinha who was smuggled through a hundi.
In this regard, ACC Commissioner (Investigation) AFM Aminul Islam told the media that SK Sinha's brother Ananta Kumar Sinha lives in America. In his account, SK Sinha has laundered money through hundi and other means at different times. He bought a house with 2 lakh 80 thousand dollars in cash in the name of his brother. SK Sinha has committed offenses under sections 4 (2), 4 (3) of the Money Laundering Act and Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947.
He added that the case against SK Sinha is being prepared. Various steps are being taken to bring him to the country.
In July 2019, the ACC filed a case against 11 people, including SK Sinha and a former managing director of Farmers Bank, on charges of abuse of power, fraud and fraudulent transfer of Taka 4 crore in private in the name of a loan from Farmers Bank. In January this year, arrest warrants were issued against 11 people, including SK Sinha.
