A metropolitan tribunal designated October 29 for submitting the inquiry report in a corruption case instituted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) targeting ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and former Exim Bank chairman Mohammad Nazrul Islam Mazumder over the alleged misappropriation of BDT 276.34 crore from banking corporate social responsibility (CSR) budgets under the guise of a charitable trust named after their father.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Shahjahan Kabir fixed the timeline following his formal acceptance of the initial information report (FIR).

The anti-graft agency initiated the lawsuit on September 3 at its Integrated District Office, Dhaka-1, pressing charges under sections 409 and 109 of the Penal Code of 1860 alongside section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947.

ACC investigation findings indicate that the trust was legally instituted via a registered deed on September 6, 1994, designating Sheikh Hasina as its perpetual president, while assigning presidential responsibilities to Sheikh Rehana during any absence.

The anti-corruption body asserted that an aggregate sum of BDT 276,34,50,000 was amassed for the organization utilizing the CSR allocations of 41 commercial banks, proceeding without mandatory clearances from the Department of Social Services and the NGO Affairs Bureau.

Investigators further claimed that Mohammad Nazrul Islam Mazumder, who functioned as president of the Bangladesh Association of Bankers (BAB) at the time, introduced the proposition under "miscellaneous business" during an executive committee gathering despite its omission from the official agenda.

Consequently, resolutions were passed across subsequent executive committee sessions to channel funds from the CSR reserves of 41 banking institutions toward the trust, prompting formal directives dispatched to individual banks to collect the capital.

The prosecution asserted that the defendants acted in mutual complicity, deploying criminal breach of duty, administrative authority abuse, and improper pressure to siphon monetary resources from institutional CSR funds for the trust, thereby inflicting financial detriment upon the state.

The incriminated actions transpired across the timeframe spanning from 2017 to 2024.