The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found that Bilkis Akhter Hossain, wife of detained BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, was involved with laundering Tk9.54 crore to the United Kingdom.
ACC deputy director Ahsan Ali told reporters: “Mosharraf has concealed his income related information in the income tax statement filed in Bangladesh and we have found his wife’s involvement with irregularity.”
He made the disclosure after questioning Bilkis Akhter at the ACC headquarters at Segunbagicha.
However, Bilkis Ahter declined to comment further saying: “I have appeared before the ACC following their notice and have replied to their queries.”
ACC director Nasim Anwar on February 6 filed a case against the BNP leader on charge of laundering around Tk9.54crore to the United Kingdom.
According to the case statement, Khandaker Mosharraf illegally amassed over £800,000 (Tk95,395,381) by abuse of power between 2001 and 2006 and concealing information.
The sum has been put into a joint fixed-term deposit account at Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking at Guernsey in the UK. The joint account belongs to him and his wife.
On March 12, police arrested Khandakar Mosharraf at Gulshan in the capital in connection with the case.