The Anti-Corruption Commission Tuesday filed a case against former foreign minister M Morshed Khan and two of his family members on charges of laundering over US$41.2m to Hong Kong.
ACC Deputy Director M Moniruzzaman Khan filed the case with Gulshan police station against M Morshed Khan, his wife Nasrin Khan, and their son Faisal Morshed Khan, ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumer Bhattacharya told reporters.
According to the case statement, Morshed Khan and his family members had siphoned US$39.5m and HKD$13.6m to Hong Kong during 2004-2011 through seven bank accounts at Standard Chartered Bank at Hong Kong.
The three accused did not take any approval from Bangladesh Bank while opening the bank accounts and transacting money at Hong Kong. In addition, they did not inform the central bank on their property/money at abroad.
“The accused three have kept foreign money at international bank without Bangladesh Bank’s consent because of their ill intention to conceal wealth information that is an offense the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2009 and Money Laundering Prevention Act 2012 respectively,” the case statement added.
The ACC in 2009 sent a Mutual Legal Assistant Request to Hong Kong seeking information on this accounts, and after receiving the information and analysing it, the ACC found Morshed Khan and his family members guilty, the statement said.
