The Anti-Corruption Commission has found 55,000 Euros, US$167, 300, 1005 grams of gold, and FDR documents worth Tk70 lakh in three lockers of former Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank SK Sur Chowdhury.
ACC Director Kazi Sayemuzzaman led a 7-member team of the commission as part of an investigation, who went to open the lockers of Sur at Bangladesh Bank’s headquarters.
According to sources, the ACC team arrived at the BB at 11am on Sunday. After the two-party discussion, the central bank called a goldsmith to open the lockers.
An executive magistrate and ACC Director Sayemuzzaman along with a seven-member delegation arrived at Bangladesh Bank to be present at the time of locker opening.
On January 19, ACC recovered documents of Tk 16.25 lakh and fixed deposits worth Tk 4.5 crore from SK Sur's Dhanmondi house. There, they found documents of three lockers in the BB. The ACC was allowed to open these lockers on the court's order.
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Later, the agency learned that it was not a vault but a locker (safe deposit) for keeping the valuables of officers and employees at the central bank. After that, the ACC sent a letter to the BB asking it not to transfer and hand over the contents of the locker.
On January 21, the central bank's security branch sent a return letter to the ACC informing it of the suspension of the transfer of the locker contents. The letter said that according to the rules, personal valuables of officers and employees working and retired at the bank are kept in BB lockers in their names in packets or boxes under their responsibility and sealed for 20 years from the date of deposit.
Then, on January 23, Bangladesh Bank said in another letter that SK Sur had kept valuables in three locker numbers. Among them, on September 25 last year, he nominated his wife Suparna Sur Chowdhury for SD-44/61 and on February 25, 2018, for SD-48/12. On July 12, 2017, he nominated his daughter Nandita Sur Chowdhury for the items kept in SD-47/35.