Businesses, individuals deposit Tk 352cr
Eight businesses and five individuals voluntarily surrendered their illegally earned Tk 352 crore to the state exchequer between November 2007 and April 2008.
The business firms and the individuals deposited the money to the government in 70 separate pay orders after joint forces investigations detected their illegal earnings.
AB Bank Limited alone paid Tk 194.48 crore in seven pay orders -- Tk 68 crore in January, Tk 66 crore in February, Tk 44 crore in April and Tk 8.41 crore in November of 2007.
Among the businesses, Bashundhara Group paid Tk 68 crore, Elite Paints Tk18.44 crore, Eastern Housing Tk 10 crore, Hosaf Group Tk 6 crore, Partex Group Tk 5 crore, Swadesh Properties Ltd Tk 2.5 crore and Amin Mohammad Group paid Tk 1.13 crore to the exchequer.
Among the individuals, Nurul Islam Babul paid Tk 15 crore, Nur Ali Tk 13.90 crore, Mr Manik Tk 4 crore, Parveen Sikdar Tk 3 crore and Abdul Awal Mintoo paid Tk 2.20 crore out of the money they made illegally.
The DGFI (Directorate General of Forces Intelligence) in three separate letters issued on April 23 and signed by Col M Afzal Naser Bhuiyan on behalf of Choudhury Fazlul Bari, director general of DGFI, urged the Bangladesh Bank to take necessary actions in this regard.
The illegal financial activities by many business firms and individuals were detected in a series of investigations by the joint forces as part of the ongoing anti-corruption drives of the government, said the letter.
During the investigations, the businesses and individuals involved in illegal activities voluntarily decided to surrender their illegally earned money to the exchequer, added the DGFI letter.
According to sources, aside from the amounts paid by the aforementioned parties, a number of others also voluntarily surrendered a huge amount of money to the exchequer throughout the investigations of the joint forces.
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