Dhaka, April 6 -- The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed two cases against former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud and his wife Nuran Fatema over allegations of having wealth beyond means.

It also accuses them of involvement in suspicious transactions amounting to more than Tk 7.22 billion across 65 bank accounts.

On Sunday, ACC Chairman Abdul Momen said they found Mahmud owning Tk 11.15 million in assets to be at odds with his known sources of income in one of the cases.

Kamalesh Mandal, a deputy director of the ACC, filed the case with ACC Integrated District Office Dhaka-1.

In the case, the anti-graft watchdogs also reported Tk 397.6 million worth of dubious transactions across nine bank accounts held by Mahmud himself, organi...