S.R. Shariful Islam Ratan, Lalmonirhat

On Thursday (January 23) afternoon, a team of the Deputy Commissioner seized several buildings including Sumon Khan’s Khan Hotel and hung government banners there. Sakhawat Hossain Sumon is the joint general secretary of Lalmonirhat district Awami League and the son of the late Bachchu Khan of Kalibari Masterpara area of ​​the district town. There are about 15 cases against him on numerous charges including murder, land grabbing, hundi business, smuggling, and tender rigging.

Earlier, after the Awami League government fell through a mass uprising by students on August 5, a police team arrested Suman Khan from a Dhaka-bound sleeper night coach from the Teesta toll plaza area. He was later arrested in various cases including murder and embezzlement. He is currently in Dhaka’s Kashimpur jail.

In this regard, Lalmonirhat Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) GR Sarwar said, “As per the court’s instructions, we have taken possession of Suman Khan’s current house, the house under construction and the buildings of a business establishment and they have been identified as government-owned. The business establishment will be run through a committee directed by a district magistrate. No statement was received from Suman Khan’s family on this matter.”

It is worth mentioning that Lalmonirhat CID has been investigating for a long time against Lalmonirhat’s top criminal Suman Khan alias Hundi Saman Khan for acquiring illegal wealth, huge amount of money in the bank, smuggling, drug dealing, gold and currency smuggling. During the investigation, 237,49,48,760/- (two hundred thirty-seven crore fifty-nine lakh forty-eight thousand seven hundred sixty) taka was found in Suman Khan’s bank account, and 4,39,35,310/- (four crore forty-nine lakh thirty-five thousand three hundred ten) taka was found in his wife Mosha. Nahida Akhter Ruma (43)’s bank account. In addition, 186,95,62,127/- (one hundred eighty-six crore ninety-five lakh sixty-one thousand one hundred twenty-seven) taka was found in the bank account of Taukir Ahmed Masum (38), son of Harun, a resident of Puran Bazar area of ​​Lalmonirhat, an employee of Sumon Khan.
Despite having no legitimate source of income, a large amount of money was deposited, transferred and converted into their bank accounts. A case was filed against the three of them under Section 4(2) of the Money Laundering Act, 2015 for these crimes.