The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday sent letters to 11 countries, including the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Dubai, Malaysia, and Singapore, seeking information on the wealth of former chief of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit Md Masud Biswas.
The commission also sent a letter signed by its deputy director Gulshan Anwar Prodhan to the Additional Inspector General of the Special Branch of Police to take appropriate measures to prevent him from leaving the country, said ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam.
Besides, Dhaka metropolitan senior special judge court on Thursday issued travel bans on former Awami league lawmaker of Manikganj-2 and national team cricketer Naimur Rahman Durjoy and his wife Farhana Rahman over allegations of corruption.聽
Apart from this, ACC on Thursday also decided to conducts inquiries against AL former lawmaker Nur Uddin Chowdhury Nayan of Laxmipur-2 constituency and Laxmipur panel mayor Farida Yasmin Lika over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption at home and abroad.
On September 25, ACC decided to launch an inquiry against Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 former chief of the BFIU, Md Masud Biswas, over allegations of corruption, including taking bribes.
According to the allegations, Masud, since assuming the post of Bangladesh Bank, had amassed huge wealth through abuse of power.
Masud concealed an allegation in exchange for bribes over irregularities in the procurement of aircraft by Sky Capital Airlines Ltd. He did not send a report on the irregularities to the law enforcement agencies, ACC officials said.
The ACC also mentioned that Tamal Pervez, chairman of NRB Commercial Bank, embezzled Tk聽5,000 crore from the private bank, and he was also involved in other financial irregularities. But the BFIU chief sent a general monitoring report instead of sending an intelligence report under the Prevention of Money Laundering Policy, 2019.
Due an abnormal increase in prices, the transactions in the bank account of a share market-listed company named Himidri Ltd were suspended, but the suspension was withdrawn following the direction of the BFIU chief in exchange for money, it said.
There were specific allegations of money laundering against Tanaka Group, SA Group, and Anwar Group, but Masud did not refer the matters to law enforcement agencies by taking personal advantage.
S Alam Group chairman Saiful Alam, in collusion with Masud Biswas, laundered crores of taka abroad after withdrawing the money in loans from Islami Bank, said the ACC.
Masud took unethical benefits from Thermax Group鈥檚 Abdul Kadir Molla and concealed the money laundering incident of Zeenat Enterprises in exchange for money, it added.