ACC seeks account details of BNP leaders from 8 banks

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday asked eight banks to provide account details of eight BNP leaders and two others for ongoing inquiries related to alleged money laundering.
The BNP leaders include, standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, vice-chairmen M Morshed Khan, Abdul Awal Mintoo, joint secretary general Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and executive committee member Tabith Awal. 
The two others are, Faisal Morshed Khan, son of Morshed Khan and Dhaka Bank Limited managing director Syed Mahbubur Rahman.
Following an allegation from an unknown source that they made suspicious transactions worth Tk 125 crore over the last 30 days the ACC on Monday began the inquiry against all of them except for Mahbubur Rahman.
But on Tuesday, the ACC also began the inquiry against Mahbubur Rahman, said an ACC director general on the condition not to quote him.
He said that ACC deputy director M Samsul Alam sent letters requesting the HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank Ltd, Dutch Bangla Bank Ltd, National Bank Ltd, First Security Islami Bank Ltd, AB Bank Ltd, Bank Asia Ltd and Dhaka Bank Ltd to provide the details of accounts of the 10 persons within seven days.
According to ACC officials, unidentified sources alleged that the BNP leaders ‘suspiciously withdrew’
Tk 125 crore from their accounts with different banks over the last one month.
They said that the ACC would examine whether the money was siphoned off and that it would also investigate into their wealth.
According to the allegation, Abdul Awal Mintoo withdrew Tk 31 crore from his accounts with some 
private banks on February 11, February 15 and February 20. 
According to the allegation, in the same month Tk eight crore was ‘suspiciously withdrawn’ from the account of Tabith Awal, son of Abdul Awal Mintoo.
On February 27, according to the same allegation, Tk 18 crore was withdrawn from an account of BNP leader Morshed Khan.
On February 26, Tk nine crore was withdrawn from an account of Faisal Morshed Khan, said ACC officials quoting the same allegation. 
Between March 3 and March 12, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain withdrew Tk 21 crore from his account with a private bank, said ACC officials quoting the same allegation. 
Quoting the same allegation, they said that he en-cashed Tk 16 crore outside the capital between February 28 and March 4, against six cheques of his Dhaka Bank account.
The ACC officials alleged that suspicious transactions were made also from the bank accounts of Nazrul Islam Khan and Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel.
BNP on Tuesday termed the ACC inquiries against its leaders as ‘politically-motivated’ based on ‘fabricated allegations of suspicious bank transactions.
BNP also called the whole exercise as part of the government’s ‘foul play’ to weaken the party and mislead the people.

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