Staff Reporter :The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday sent a notice to Bilkis Hossain, wife of BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Khondokar Mosharraf Hossain, to appear at the Commission’s Headquarters on April 8 in connection with laundering of money to the United Kingdom by her husband.ACC Deputy Director Ahsan Ali told The New Nation that Bilkis Hossain would be asked as to how £ 8.40 lakh (Tk 9.53 crore) was deposited to Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Bank in London. She would also be asked whether theylaundered money to any other country. ACC found the evidence of laundering money in his and his wife’s joint account maintained with the bank.Dr Mosharraf told the ACC that the money had not been laundered from the country, but proceeds of the legal income in the UK.On March 12, a team of ACC with the assistance of police arrested the former health minister from his residence at Gulshan in the city. The Commission produced him to the court and prayed for remand to interrogate him. The court granted three days remand. He is in jail now. On February 6, ACC Deputy Director Nasim Anowar filed a case with Ramna Thana against the BNP leader. According to the case, he earned huge amount of money misusing his power when he was a health minister between 2001 and 2006. Later, he laundered the said amount violating the rules and regulations of the country.
