Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charge-sheet against Interpol-wanted convicted fugitive Colonel (sacked) Shahid Uddin Khan, his wife Farzana Anjum and daughters Shehtaz Munasi Khan and Parisa Pinaz Khan on allegations of illegally amassing wealth worth BDT 400 million beyond known source of income. The charge-sheet was approved on May 2, 2023.
Nazmul Hussain, ACC deputy director and investigation officer who is the investigation officer said, the charge sheet shall be submitted with the court soon. Earlier on April 28, 2022, ACC Deputy Director Jalal Uddin Ahmed filed the case against Shahid Uddin Khan and others as the plaintiff.
ACC Md. Mahbub Hossain said, during the investigation, the commission has found evidence against Shahid Uddin Khan, his wife and two daughters of illegally amassing wealth worth BDT 390.7340 million.
Shahid Uddin Khan has earlier been convicted in a tax evasion case.
Since 2014, Shahid Uddin Khan and members of his family are living in the United Kingdom.
It may be mentioned here that back in September 2022, a court in Dhaka has handed three years imprisonment to Shahid Uddin Khan in a corruption case. According to our court correspondent, judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of the 9th Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka, Bangladesh announced the verdict on September 13, 2022 after the trial into a case lodged by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). In the judgement, the court also has imposed a fine of BDT 50,000 on the accused and another month’s imprisonment in default of payment of the fine. The court has issued a warrant of arrest against Shahid Uddin Khan.
Prosecutor Rafiqul Haque Benu represented the Anti-Corruption Commission in the case.
According to the ACC complaint, Shahid Uddin Khan joined the Bangladesh Armed Forces in 1983 as a first-class officer on completion of 8th BMA Long Course. He married Farzana Anjum in 1989 and the couple has three daughters namely Shehtaz Munasi Khan, Parisa Pinaz Khan and Zumana Fiza Khan.
The investigation revealed that Shahid Uddin Khan lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and children. He owns a flat in the Dhaka city’s Baridhara area in the name of his family members and two houses in London, UK, worth approximately BDT 250.50 million.
Besides, Shahid Uddin Khan and his family members have 12 bank accounts in the United Kingdom.
There are 500,000 shares worth BDT 100 per share in a company named Prachhaya Limited, in the name of his wife and daughters. They also own Bandishahi Cold Storage in Comilla worth millions of taka. They also have a business named Zumana Investments and Properties Limited in London and a bank account in Cyprus.
Shahid Uddin Khan’s brother Mohammed Ali Khan had 3.39 million Dirhams deposited in a bank in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, which was later transferred to a business named Zumana Investments and Properties Limited.
According to the information, Shahid Uddin Khan has 12 bank accounts abroad along with movable and immovable assets worth BDT 300.50 million in his name or in the name of his family members, which is unusual for a government officer.
This clearly proves, Shahid Uddin Khan and his family members have amassed wealth outside any known income source.
On August 16, 2020, ACC served a notice asking Shahid Uddin Khan to file a statement of assets. As he did not submit the statement of assets, ACC Deputy Director Jamal Uddin Ahmed filed the case on January 24, 2021. On completion of investigation a charge-sheet was submitted on November 14, 2021.
Earlier, on November 10, 2020, a court in Dhaka had sentenced Shahid Uddin Khan and his wife Farzana Anjum Khan and four others to life imprisonment in a case lodged under Arms Act.
On December 20, 2020, another Dhaka court sentenced Shahid Uddin Khan to nine years imprisonment in the income tax evasion case.
Illegal wealth of Shahid Uddin Khan and family
According to information, Shahid Uddin Khan, his wife and three daughters own properties worth hundreds of millions of takas in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Here is only description of only a portion of properties owned by the terror-funder family:
- A posh apartment at flat # 2, house # 184, road # 2, Baridhara DOHS, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- A 5,000 square-feet apartment at flat # C2 and C3, house # 2, road # 4, Banani DOHS, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- A 9,000 square-feet apartment at Polaris, ABC-3, Second floor, House # 1, Adamjee Cantonment, developed by Shanta Properties, Dhaka, Bangladesh (this huge apartment is purchased in the name of Shahid Uddin Khan’s wife Farzana Anjum Khan),
- An apartment at flat # C5, house # 20, road # 4, Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh (this apartment is purchased in the name of Shahid Uddin Khan’s wife Farzana Anjum Khan),
- An apartment at flat # B5, house # 10, road # 10, Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- A luxury villa at 239 West Barnes Lane, New Malden KT3 6JD, United Kingdom (this property is purchased in the name of Shahid Uddin Khan with £1,250000). The land has the benefit of the rights granted by but is subject to the rights reserved by a Conveyance dated 24 October 1927 made between Charles Cunningham and Vera Kahn,
- An expensive property at 57 Coombe Lane, West Wimbledon, London SW20 0BD. This property is purchased in the name of Farzana Anjum Khan, Shehtaz Munasi Khan and Parisa Pinaz Khan with £750,000).
In addition to these properties in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom, Shahid Uddin Khan and his family members have made huge investment in a number of business enterprises such as:
Uttara Apparels Limited, Company number 08132788, SIC codes 46420 (Private company limited by shares), located at 57 Coombe Lane, London SW20 0BD, the United Kingdom, where Shahid Uddin Khan holds 65 percent and his wife Farjana Anjum Khan holds 35 shares,
A company named Zumana Investment & Holdings Limited [also named a Zumana Investment & Properties Limited], Incorporation certificate number 0741417, dated October 25, 2010. The registered office of this company is located at Unit 29 Eleanor Street, London, E3 4UR, United Kingdom,
A company named Astha Now Limited, company number 11995656 situated at 239 West Barnes Lane, New Malden, England, KT3 6JD is owned by Farjana Anjum Khan, Shahid Uddin Khan, Parisa Pinaz Khan, Shehtaz Munasi Khan and Zumana Fiza Khan.
They also had established a readymade garments factory in Bangladesh namely Shujon Apparels Limited, which was involved in smuggling of narcotics from Bangladesh to the United Kingdom under the disguise of apparel consignments. It is anticipated that the key reason behind establishment of Uttara Apparels Limited in Britain is also to continue drug trafficking within the European countries. It may be mentioned here that, Shahid Uddin Khan is linked to terror don Dawood Ibrahim.
We also have received specific information on massive financial transactions of dirty cash by Shahid Uddin Khan, his wife and three daughters in a number of banks in Bangladesh, which will come up in the next report. It may be mentioned here that, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against sacked military officer and INTERPOL wanted convicted jihad funder Shahid Uddin Khan, his wife Farzana Anjum Khan and daughter on charges of illegal assets worth BDT 400 million. Earlier Dhaka court convicted Shahid Uddin Khan in income tax evasion case. Khan is on run since 2018 and has been living in the United Kingdom with his family.
More about Shahid Uddin Khan and his family
Since 2009, Shahid Uddin Khan’s family has been living in the United Kingdom. Shahid Uddin Khan (Army No: BA002428, Course: 8-BMA, Commission Date: 10-06-1983) and his wife and daughters entered Britain with millions of dirty cash.
According to credible sources, in 2009, Shahid Uddin Khan invested millions of pounds in the United Kingdom in exchange for obtaining immigrant status under Visa Tier 1, vide VAF No. 511702. The family had laundered an unknown amount of money and brought that into the United Kingdom via the United Arab Emirates and a few more countries, while Shahid Uddin Khan had invested over 18 million pounds for buying citizenship under Britain’s scandalous ‘Golden Visa’ scheme.
According to immigration records, Shahid Uddin Khan and his family members regularly visit the United Arab Emirates. British intelligence agencies never wanted to know the reason behind this family’s visit to the UAE.
Media reports said, four months before the Sri Lanka attacks, ISIS funder Shahid Uddin Khan had sent an amount equivalent to ninety-two thousand dollars. This amount went from Dubai to Colombo. In other words, Khans funded the Sri Lanka jihadists – on behalf of ISIS.
According to a report published in The Business Standard, Indian intelligence agencies were probing a deep-rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London-based former Colonel of the Bangladesh army. The agencies suspect that the Bangladeshi army officer, allegedly involved in gun running, has links with Dawood Ibrahim’s underworld activities operating from India’s eastern borders.
What prompted the intelligence agencies to probe the nexus between Dawood and the Bangladeshi army officer was a report published in a leading British daily. On May 25, 2019 British newspaper The Sunday Times, in an exclusive report, revealed that a sacked Colonel Md Shahid Uddin Khan had been charged with funding terror groups, arms dealing and money laundering offences in Bangladesh. According to the British newspaper, the former Colonel has political links in Britain and had funded an MP.
Sources said that the former Bangladeshi Colonel migrated to London in 2009 under mysterious circumstances. He is said to have had business operations in Dubai as well as in Britain. As per the latest dossier on the Dawood Ibrahim gang, the D company is involved in smuggling Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) and contraband narcotics. The illegal activities are being operated from Nepal and Bangladesh.
