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Court orders to preserve seized currencies, gold of SK Sur in BB

News Desk || risingbd.com

Published: 22:25, 28 January 2025  
Court orders to preserve seized currencies, gold of SK Sur in BB

A Dhaka court has instructed the concerned authorities to preserve the foreign curries and gold ornaments of former Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank Sitangshu Kumar (SK) Sur Chowdhury in the vault of Bangladesh Bank (BB). 

Md Zakir Hossain Galib of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court passed the order on Tuesday, following a petition submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). 

The foreign currencies and gold ornaments were seized by the ACC from his lockers at Bangladesh Bank.

ACC officials seized 55,000 Euros, 1,69,300 US dollars, 1005 grams of gold and Fixed Deposit Records (FDR) worth about Taka 70 lakhs from his lockers of the central bank on January 26 last.

On January 14, a team of the ACC with the help of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested SK Sur Chowdhury from city’s Segun Bagicha area. He was also later sent to the jail on that day.

 

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