ACC sends 71 requests abroad to retrieve laundered money

Court Correspondent :

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has so far issued 71 Mutual Legal Assistant Requests (MLARs) to the foreign countries concerned in an effort to recover money laundered abroad.

“Of these requests, the ACC has so far got 27 responses,” ACC Director General (Anti-Money Laundering) Akhter Hossain told journalists after a meeting with a delegation of the European Union (EU) to prevent money laundering from the country.

EU Head of Development Cooperation Miche Krija led the 4-member EU delegation while Program Manager of Inclusive Governance Pablo Padin, Miss Nader Tanija, and Kishore Amin accompanied him.

The ACC official said during the meeting, the EU delegation was informed about the activities of the ACC, the state-run anti-graft body. Meanwhile, the EU delegation reiterated its commitment to provide all-out cooperation to the commission to this end.

Replying to a media query, the ACC official said, “I have informed them in detail about the barriers we had been facing in money laundering cases . . . The names of the countries concerned were given to them, where money was laundered.”

ACC Chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, Secretary Khorseda Yasmin and top officials of the Anti-Money Laundering and ACC’s Intelligence unit, among others, were present in the meeting.