Noakhali Correspondent

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is investigating the acquisition of illegal assets of Active Group Chairman Jahangir Kabir who is also Chairman of Chatkhil Upazila Parishid.

The investigation started in 2018 has been suspended for a long time, but the ACC is starting again. Allegedly, he is not allowing the investigation to proceed under the influence of power.

However, recently the investigating officer of the ACC has got hold of Jahangir's illegal assets and money laundering abroad. ACC will launch further investigation against him soon.

According to the complaint submitted to the ACC, Active Group Chairman Jahangir Kabir owns four 10-storey houses, four plots and flats, 28 shops, 3 big factories in his and his wife's name and various properties of about 800 acres in Chatkhil in Dhaka, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Satkhira and Noakhali. has But Jahangir once worked as a 'salesman' in a minister's factory.

He embezzled the money of that minister's factory and became an industrialist himself. He has his own factories in Mirpur and Pallabi of Dhaka. He looted crores of rupees through various projects with his own people. He has to pay commission at the rate of 10 percent for any work of the local government department.

The complaint further states that the assets found in the name of Jahangir and his wife include two luxury houses in Plot No. 4 and 6 of Road No. 3, Section No. 7, Mirpur. Factory in 2 10 storey houses on road number 9 and 16 of Mirpur section 6. House at 31/32, Pallabir, Mirpur, huge amount of land in Mirpur Dia house and space in Amibazar Savar. Faiza Bottom & Factory is owned by wife in Gazipur. In which he has spent about 1100 crores. Also a plot in Bashundhara residential area, plot in Mirpur Eastern housing, shop in police plaza in Gulshan and shops in various markets in Gulshan in wife's name.

Jahangir Kabir's money laundering complaint is also with the ACC. Through his Saudi expatriate maternal uncle and father-in-law Noor Mohammad, he has invested hundreds of crores of rupees in the hotel business in Saudi Arabia. Noor Mohammad was once the cashier of war criminal Mir Kashem Ali. Noor Mohammad embezzled huge amount of money from Mir Kashem Ali after his execution. It has been said in the complaint that various tenders have been grabbed in the financial year from 2016 to 2020. He has irregularly taken the PIC from 31 to 39 percent in a 4-year tender. Which is outside the local government law.

Jahangir Kabir, despite being the chairman of Chatkhil Upazila of Noakhali, traveled abroad at least 50 times in the last ten years without the permission of the local government department. Which is beyond local government rules. He has traveled abroad so many times mainly for the purpose of money laundering. Last month, he secretly bagged a tender of Rs 2 crore in the name of his own people. 3 months ago, Upazila Parishad secretly sold trees worth 5 crore rupees. Jahangir is also accused of misappropriating TR Kabikha without distributing it to the general public.

He tendered various projects of the upazila through his own syndicate. There are also allegations of embezzling money without working.

The ACC has alleged that Jahangir sent his sons and daughters to Canada and America to smuggle huge sums of money abroad. When asked about this, Jahangir Kabir said that these complaints are old. Let the ACC investigate. I will give the answer to ACC. I will not say anything more.