The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on charge of laundering about Tk 9.53 crore by misusing his power.
ACC director Nasim Anower filed the case against Mosharraf, who is also former health minister, with Ramna police station under the Money Laundering Prevention Act-2002, according to an ACC. According to the first information report, he said Mosharraf laundered the money during 2001 to 2006 when he was the minister of health and family welfare of the BNP-Jammat led four-party government.
Dr Mosharraf opened a joint account in the United Kingdom (UK) in his own and his wife Bilkis Akter Hossain’s names. He opened the account with Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking, Guernsey, Channel Island, GY 14EN, UK, said the report.
The ACC official said that the commission had collected documents from the UK with the help of the Attorney General of Bangladesh and the central bank through mutual legal assistance request (MLAR) in March last year.
The commission will investigate Bilkis Akter’s involvement with the laundering case, said the FIR.
Meanwhile, the ACC on Thursday approved a charge sheet against former post and telecommunications minister and BNP leader Aminul Haque on charge of taking 17.08 lakh dollars as bribe from a US expatriate between 2001 and 2006.
ACC assistant commissioner Toufikul Islam filed the case with Ramna police in June 2012.
According to ACC findings, Aminul had taken the money from one Mizanur Rahman for helping him (Mizanur) to get a contract from Siemens Bangladesh Ltd. Mizanur is also a relative of Aminul, said the case statement. – Staff Reporter
