DHAKA: (Oct 31) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a money laundering case against Jahangir Alam, a former office assistant to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, accusing him of laundering Tk 100 crore through illegal channels over a period of more than a decade.
The case was lodged today at Chatkhil Police Station in Noakhali under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, following an investigation by CID’s Financial Crime Unit that found “substantial preliminary evidence” of large-scale financial irregularities, CID Special Superintendent (Media) Jasim Uddin Khan said in a statement.
Jahangir, a native of Chatkhil upazila, had worked at the National Parliament Secretariat on a daily-wage basis before being temporarily appointed as a personal assistant at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) after the Awami League came to power in 2009. Investigators say his time in the PMO allowed him to accumulate “unexplained wealth and financial influence.”
In 2010, Jahangir founded Sky Re Arrange Limited, a distribution company linked to a mobile financial service. However, CID said that the company’s financial records showed massive discrepancies — including unexplained deposits exceeding Tk 565 crore between 2010 and 2024.
Most of the deposits were made in cash from various parts of the country, inconsistent with the company’s declared business activities, CID’s preliminary findings noted.
Investigators suspect the transactions were linked to hundi and other money laundering networks. The probe also revealed that Jahangir, along with his wife Kamrun Nahar and brother Monir Hossain, had been involved in illicit financial operations for years.
Both Jahangir and Kamrun reportedly moved to the United States in June 2024, where they are currently residing in Virginia. CID said it found no record of Bangladesh Bank approval for their overseas investments or property acquisitions.
According to the agency, the trio and their company are believed to have laundered about Tk 100 crore abroad between 2010 and 2024.
“Efforts are underway to trace others connected to the network and to determine the full extent of the money laundering operation,” the CID statement said.