The Anti Corruption Commission has filed a case against BNP’s Standing Committee Member Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain on charge of allegedly laundering around Tk9.54crore to United Kingdom.
Nasim Anwar, director of the anti-graft watchdog, filed the case with the Ramna police station on Thursday.
According to the case statement, the former minister has earned foreign currency valued British Pound of about 8.04lakh (BDT 9,53,95,381) abusing his power in between 2001 and 2006 and through concealing information.
He deposited the money at a fixed term deposit account at Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking, Guernsey, UK. The joint account belongs to the former minister and his wife Bilkis Akhter Hossain.
The commission, after analysing different documents including "package of evidence," given by British government through Mutual Legal Assistance Request (MLAR), information from foreign exchange department of Bangladesh Bank, and income tax return statements of the ex- minister and his wife, found that Mosharraf has acquired many properties at UK in between 2001 to 2006, the FIR reads.
The case was filed under three provisions of the money laundering act-2002, 2009 and 2012, Rafat Ara Sultana, duty officer of Ramna police station, told the Dhaka Tribune.