Dhaka, April 22 -- The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is preparing to initiate three cases against Awami League presidium member and former Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, his wife Shaheen Akhtar and daughter Anika Fariha Zaman for amassing "illicit wealth" amounting to Tk 290 million.

He has been in hiding since the political changeover. The ACC named him in all three cases.

The cases have already been greenlit by the anti-graft agency, the commission's Director General Akhtar Hossain said on Tuesday.

In the first case, Liton was accused of accumulating "assets beyond his legal source of income" worth Tk 103.5 million by abusing power.

In addition, the ACC has detected "suspicious transactions" equival...