DINAJPUR, Feb 27, 2025 (BSS) – The Anti-Corruption (ACC) has started investigation against graft allegations of Bashar, APS to the former MP and ex-state minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury from Dinajpur-2 constituency.

ACC Deputy Director Md Ataur Rahman of Dinajpur District Office confirmed BSS today, about the allegations saying, a three-member team led by an Assistant Director is now investigating it.

 The ACC source said that the investigation has uncovered a huge amount of illegal financial assets and found information about the purchase of land and flats in various places including Dinajpur.

The official said APS Bashar and his family members have FDRs and savings accounts in various banks, including land purchases.

The APS has become the owner of several thousand crores of taka in just 5 to 6 years. He has built huge wealth in Dinajpur district and various areas in the capital, the investigation revealed.

The ACC official said under the influence of Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, the State Minister for Shipping of the deposed Awami League government, APS Bashar has earned thousands of crores of taka through recruitment-business, tender bidding and ensuring party positions and he himself took ownership of the agent banking branch to launder the money.

“APS Bashar owns 300 bighas of land in his own village Tena and neighboring villages. Besides, he has a farm house with a pond of 150 bighas. Bashar has built land, shops, and warehouses worth several crores taka in Kalupir Bazar,” the ACC claimed.

Bashar has a mango orchard on 90 bighas of land in No-5 Saidpur Union in Pirganj Upazila of neighboring Thakurgaon district, 58 percent of land worth about several crores taka in Pirganj Upazila, 1,741 percent of land worth several crores of taka in his own name as well as in the name of his relatives in Setabganj Bazar, 386 percent of land next to the district's Birol Land Port, and five plots were found in his relatives’ names of his in-laws' house in Dinajpur town.

Apart from this, he has 13 flats in capital’s Lalmatia, Adabor, Shekhertek, Mohammadia Housing Society, Babar Road, Humayun Road, Bashila and Dhaka Udyan. 

When Deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the country following August 5 Mass Uprising, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury went into hiding with other members of her cabinet.

APS Bashar and his associates went into hiding with him. As a result, no statements were received regarding the various irregularities and money laundering that were raised against them by the state-run anti-graft watchdog ACC.