BB 'corrupt' list includes Tofail, Khoka
Asks banks to report accounts
Staff Correspondent
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sent a list of 198 corruption suspects to commercial banks directing the financial institutions to submit the account details of those persons.The list newly includes the names of Awami League (AL) leader Tofail Ahmed, former foreign minister Morshed Khan, Dhaka City Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka, former lawmaker Kader Siddiqui, and Manjurul Islam of Eastern Housing. The central bank sent the list titled 'List of Corrupt People' with the directive to commercial banks on Thursday, after a demand from law enforcing agencies, while another BB directive has asked for the bank account details of eminent lawyer and former Supreme Court Bar Association president Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud. The banks have been asked to submit the account details of the people on the list by August 8. Many of the people on the list are currently in jail and their bank account details were sought earlier also. The central bank directive asked the banks to submit detailed information on transactions made through personal accounts, joint accounts, current accounts, foreign currency accounts, savings accounts, credit accounts, and credit cards. The BB's latest directive also asked the banks to submit the account details of Sajib Wazed Joy, son of detained AL President Sheikh Hasina, and of former AL lawmaker Altaf Hossain Golondaz. Joy, who has been living in the US, in a recent media interview, said he has no bank account in Bangladesh while Altaf Hossain Golondaz died on February 17 this year. The list also newly includes the names of BNP leader Barkat Ullah Bulu, former state minister and BNP leader Ehsanul Haq Milon, Khulna City Mayor and BNP leader Sheikh Taiyabur Rahman, Rajshahi City Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu, former BNP lawmaker M Ilias Ali, BNP leader Mofiqul Hasan Tripti, Nazmul Huda's wife Sigma Huda, former BNP lawmakers AKM Anwarul Islam, Dewan Mohammad Salauddin, Giasuddin Ahmed, Habibul Islam Habib, Moshiur Rahman, Shahidul Islam Master, Masud Arun, Shahidul Haq Jamal, Nurul Islam Moni, Monirul Haq Chowdhury, Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzul Farid, Reza Ahmed Bachchu Mollah, Syed Mehedi Ahmed Rumi, Prof Shahidul Islam, and Hemayet Ullah Awranga, BNP leader Syed Emran Saleh Prince, Hawa Bhaban staff Joy, Ashok and Apu, former finance minister Saifur Rahmn's personal secretary Quiyum, BNP's student wing leader Habibunnabi Khan Sohel, Khaleda Zia's brother Shamim Iskander, and her nephew Shahriar Islam Tuhin, former minister Mirza Abbas's brother Mirza Khokon, and former foreign minister Morshed Khan's son Faisal Morshed Khan. The list also includes the names of AL leaders Rashed Mosharraf, Talukder Abdul Khaleq, Touhid Jang Murad, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, Ali Reza Razu, Abdul Latif Mirza, Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, ASM Firoz and AKM Jahangir Hossain, among others. The new list also contains the names of the following people, whose bank account details were sought earlier too, AL general secretary Abdul Jalil, former health minister and AL leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, former home minister and AL leader Mohammad Nasim, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, former state minister and AL joint secretary Obaidul Quader, Chittagong City Mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury, former lawmaker and Jubo League General Secretary Mirza Azam, businessman Salman F Rahman, former lawmaker and AL leader HBM Iqbal, former AL lawmakers Shamim Osman, Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhry Babu, AHM Mustafa Kamal, Jainal Hazari, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Abul Hasnat Abdullah, AL leader Pankaj Debnath, Kamal Ahmed Majumder, Haji Makbul, Haji Selim, and Rafiqul Anwar, Sheikh Hasina's APS Alauddin Nasim, former minister and Jatiya Party (Manju) Chairman Anwar Hossain Manju, and Jatiya Party (Ershad) leader Ziauddin Bablu. The names of Khaleda Zia's elder son Tarique Rahman, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Barrister Nazmul Huda, Mirza Abbas, Tariqul Islam, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Lutfozzaman Babar, Mir Nasir Uddin, Ziaul Haq Zia, Shahjahan Siraj, Amanullah Aman, Mosaddak Ali Falu, Harris Chowdhury, former BNP lawmakers Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu, M Rashiduzzaman Millat, Ali Asgar Lobi, MAH Selim, M Naser Rahman Babu, BNP leader Shish Mohammad, Helaluzzaman Talukder Lalu, Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, AKM Anwarul Islam, Harun-or-Rashid, Hafiz Ibrahim, Monwar Hossain Dipjal and Abul Hashem, Islamic Oikya Jote leader Mufti Shahidul Islam are also on the list. The businessmen, whose bank account details have been sought are Ahmed Akbar Sobhan (Shah Alam) of Bashundhara Group, Nurul Islam Babul of Jamuna Group, Giridhari Lal Modi of Uttara Group, Obadiul Karim of Orion Group, former Federation of Bangaldesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) president Abdul Awal Mintu, and Tarique Rahman's business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun. Former power secretary ANM Akhter, former chief forest conservator Osman Gani, and former AIG of police Shahidullah Khan's bank account details have also been sought.
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