Police picked up BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday night.
A team of Gulshan Police Station picked up the BNP leader from his Gulshan residence around 10:25pm, his son Barrister Maruf Mosharraf told UNB over phone.
He said police told them that they held him in connection with a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission against him.On February 6, ACC director Nasim Anwar filed the case with Ramna Police Station on charge of siphoning off money.
According to the first information report (FIR), Mosharraf Hossain laundered British pound of about 8.04 lakh (equivalent to Tk 9.54 crore) to the United Kingdom when he was the Health and Family Welfare Minister during 2001-2006 tenure of the BNP government.
Before filing the case, the graft watchdog collected documents related to his graft allegations from the British government through the mutual legal assistance request (MLAR) of the Attorney General Office.
After examining the package of evidence and other documents, the ACC found that a fixed term deposit of about 8.04 lakh pound was deposited in a joint account (AC 108492) of Dr Mosharraf and his wife Bilkis Akhter Hossain at Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking, Guernsey.
Dr Mosharraf and his wife opened the bank account in the UK bank without the approval of the Bangladesh Bank, which is a violation of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947. – UNB
