– There are also industrialists, businessmen, bureaucrats, police officers in the list of money laundering abroad
– S Alam Group has been accused of smuggling 1 lakh crore rupees
– Salman F Rahman alone has smuggled 30 thousand crore rupees
In the last 15 years, through abuse of power, bribery and corruption, the ruling party’s ministers and MPs have smuggled most of the mountain of illegal wealth they have built abroad. The anti-corruption commission (ACC) has found that more than 70 ministers-MPs, industrialists, businessmen, bureaucrats and police officers are involved in this trafficking in the face of the student movement. However, the list of money launderers is believed to be longer.
An official of the ACC related to the investigation said that the complaints taken into account by the ACC and the intelligence investigation of the commission have found concrete evidence of money laundering abroad against almost all the ministers and MPs. In the meantime, a letter has been sent to BFIU, the financial intelligence unit of Bangladesh, seeking information. Apart from this, MLAR has also been done asking for information on foreign assets.
According to ACC sources, 83 of the people whose complaints were taken into account in the last one month after the departure of the Awami League government in the wake of the student-public movement are ministers and MPs. Among them, the ACC has received evidence of foreign assets of more than half a hundred ministers and MPs.
Among those accused of money laundering are former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private sector advisor and MP Salman F Rahman, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal (Lotus Kamal), former Law Minister Anisul Haque, former Social Welfare Minister Dr. Dipu Moni, former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Jabed, former navy minister Shajahan Khan, former textile and jute minister Golam Dastgir Gazi and others.
Apart from this, ACC has filed a specific complaint against the owner of S Alam Group Saiful Alam Masood, former DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia and former DB chief (Additional Commissioner of DMP) Harun Or Rashid, former Cabinet Secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, and more than half a hundred people in the center of power for laundering thousands of crores of taka abroad. has
According to ACC sources, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia, Canada and some island countries were popular destinations for money laundering from Bangladesh. However, the destination of money laundering has changed in the last few years. Currently, Bangladeshi smugglers are choosing countries like Middle East, Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe, including Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, as a safe destination for money.
According to ACC sources, on August 15, the ACC started investigating allegations of acquiring assets outside of known income and money laundering against S Alam Group and Nafiz Sarafat and on August 22 against Salman F Rahman. According to the complaint taken into account by the ACC, Salman F Rahman, the leader of Beximco Group, widely criticized across the country, and Chowdhury Nafiz Sarafat, the resigned chairman of Padma Bank, committed unprecedented corruption, looting, fraud and money laundering from the financial sector. There is an allegation of smuggling one lakh crore taka against S Alam Group and about 30 thousand crore taka against Salman F Rahman of ‘Dervesh fame’. Chowdhury Nafiz Sarafat has been accused of smuggling 800 crore rupees.
Apart from this, the ACC decided to investigate corruption allegations against General Aziz Ahmed on September 4, Asaduzzaman Mia and Haroon Or Rashid on August 18 and Kabir bin Anwar on August 25.
Ex-ministers-MPs and influential people involved in money laundering: Apart from the above, former Minister of Commerce Tipu Munshi, former Minister of State for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu, former Minister of Food Sadhan Chandra Majumdar, former Minister of Law Anisul Haque, former Minister of State for Relief and Disaster Dr. Enamur Rahman, former Minister of Health Zahid Malek , former local government minister Tajul Islam, former minister Junaid Ahmed Palak, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Naufel, Khalid Mahmud, Chowdhury Faridul Haque, Imran Ahmad, Zakir Hossain, Kamal Ahmed Majumdar, Zahid Ahsan Russell, Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, Shajahan Khan, Hasan Mahmud, Kamrul Islam, Hasanul Haque Inu, former minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar, former MP Asim Kumar Ukil and his wife Jubo Mahila League central general secretary and reserved women’s seat MP Apu Ukil, MP Jannat Ara Henry, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s former deputy press secretary Ashraful Alam Khokon, former assistant (Peon) Tk 400 crore owner Md Jahangir, former minister Md Shahab Uddin and former MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, former state minister Sharif Ahmed, former MP Shah Alam Talukdar, former MP Dhirendra Nath Shambhu and his son Sunam Debnath , MP Md. Abul Kalam Azad, MP Dr. Mansoor Rahman, Ex-Minister Md. Abdur Rahman, Ex-MP Solaiman Haque Zoardar, Ex-MP Iqbalur Rahim, MP Saifuzzaman Shekhar, Minister Jillul Hakim, Ex-MP Tanveer Imam, Ex-Minister Sham Rezaul Karim, former state minister Mannujan Sufian, former MP Md. Rafiqul Islam Shimul, former MP Naimur Rahman Durjoy, former MP Md. Enamul Haque, former MP Md. Nizam Hazari, former minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, former MP Mahbub Ali, former MP Md. Akhtaruzzaman Babu and many others are involved in money laundering.
