Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader. File Photo

DHAKA, Mar 20, 2025 (BSS) - The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to take legal action against Jatiya Party Chairman Golam Mohammad Quader (GM Quader) as its investigators found graft allegations against him.

ACC Director General (Prevention) Md Akhter Hossain told this journalist in a formal briefing today.

“The ACC investigation team found sufficient evidences of taking bribes from MP (Member of Parliament) nominees and using party position to earn money illegally and laundering assets abroad,” the ACC official told.

Citing confidential sources, the ACC said after the 11th Jatiya Sangsad polls in 2018, GM Quader took bribes worth Taka 18.10 crore from candidates for the reserved seats for women of the Jatiya Party, Akhter mentioned.

There is a widespread allegation that the main beneficiary of this money was the then acting Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader.

 As a sequel to it, Prof Masuda M Rashid Chowdhury was suspended from his party post for not paying the money as per the agreement with GM Quader.

On the contrary, GM Quader's wife Sharifa Quader got the party nomination and subsequently became the Member of Parliament there.

It said, GM Quader became the chairman of the Jatiya Party through fraudulent way and acquired huge money through trading the party position and nomination as well. Subsequently those amounts were siphoned off abroad.

The Jatiya Party central committee has 301 members, but due to ‘position trading’, currently 600 to 650 people have been included there.

Meanwhile, as per the wealth statement filed during the 12th national election of 2024, GM Quader owned Tk 49.88 lakh in cash, Tk 35.95  lakh in the bank and a private jeep worth Tk 84.98 lakh.

Bedsides, his wife Sharifa Quader possessed Tk 59.59 lakh in cash, Tk 28.09 lakh in the bank and a jeep worth Tk 80 lakh. On the other hand, his immovable assets include land and flats in Lalmonirhat and Dhaka, the ACC official said.

Investigation revealed that GM Quader has laundered wealth anonymously abroad (Singapore, London and Sydney).

 various constituencies since 1996 and served as the Opposition Leader in the House.
From 2009-2014, he served as the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism and the Ministry of Commerce as well.