The Anti-Corruption Commission is likely to send a Mutual Legal Assistance Request (MLAR) to Singapore this month to investigate a money laundering case against BNP leader and former state minister for home Lutfazzaman Babar.
The commission has already given its approval to send the MLAR through the attorney general by this month, a well-placed ACC source told the Dhaka Tribune.
Seeking anonymity, the ACC official said the probe team is now looking for information regarding the $1 million deposited by the HSBC bank in Singapore to Babar’s account with Prime Bank’s Gulshan branch.
The ACC will send the MLAR to find out details about the transaction as Babar did not disclose anything in this regard, the official added.
The anti-graft body is trying to find out whether the amount had been deposited to the former minister’s account to secure any illegal benefits during the BNP-Jamaat government’s tenure.
The ACC lodged the case against Babar during the in 2008 for allegedly illegally amassing wealth worth Tk70,091,896 and concealing information about it.