Bangladesh Bank has asked 17 Mobile Financial Service (MFS) providers to scrutinise the information of their agents, especially of 2,887 bKash agents, whose accounts were suspended over digital hundi.
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) - the anti-money laundering wing of Bangladesh Bank (BB) - issued the order on Wednesday.
Separate letters were sent to the MFS providers aiming to find out if those blocked bKash agents are using other MFS accounts for suspicious transactions.
Currently 18 banks are providing mobile financial services including bKash of Brac Bank.
BB Executive Director, also the spokesperson of the bank, Subhankar Saha said: “As 2,887 agent accounts of bKash were found to have been involved in suspicious transactions.
“We issued an order to all the MFS providers to submit information about their agents.”
The order especially asked for scrutinising the closed bKash agents, he said.
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On September 14, the central bank asked the bKash authorities to suspend activities of 2,887 agent accounts for their alleged involvement in digital hundi.
The 2,887 accounts were used to receive money from foreign countries, according to a probe report of the BFIU. The transactions were made during the night, it added.
Sources at BB said around 600,000 accounts of 80,000 bKash agents would also be suspended as they are using the accounts without proper registration.
The BFIU launched the probe as the remittance inflow through legal banking channel saw a negative trend in recent times.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
