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The Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Tuesday instructed the concerned authorities to preserve the foreign currencies 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, the judge of the court, passed the order 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, BSS reports.
ACC lawyer Mahmud Hossain Jahangir told the BSS news agency that ACC Deputy Director Nazmul Hussain had prayed to the court to preserve the foreign currencies, including US dollars, Euros, and gold ornaments, at an appropriate place or the government treasury.
The ACC lawyer moved the petition before the court on behalf of the anti-graft body. The court, after hearing the arguments of the ACC lawyer, passed the order.
On January 22, the court ordered the seizure of the lockers of the former Deputy Governor, and the ACC officials seized 55,000 Euros, 169,300 US dollars, 1,005 grams of gold, and fixed deposit records (FDR) worth about Tk 7 million (Tk 70 lakhs) from his lockers at the central bank on January 26.
On January 14, a team of the ACC, with the help of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, arrested SK Sur Chowdhury from the city’s Segun Bagicha area. He was also later sent to jail on the same day.