ACC finds evidence against Dr Mosharraf

Staff Reporter :
Deputy Director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Ahsan Ali claimed that the Commission had found evidence of involvement of Bilkis Akhter, wife of BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain, in laundering money abroad with her husband.
Ahsan Ali, who is an investigation officer of the case filed against the BNP leader, disclosed it to the newsmen after questioning her in ACC’s headquarters between 10:00am and 12:00 Noon on Tuesday.
Bilkis Akhter admitted that the joint account was
opened in her and her husband’s names in London, the officer said and added that the Commission found her involvement in siphoning off the money.
When the journalists asked Bilkis, she said, “I have come to ACC, as it summoned me. I have answered all the questions the officials asked me”.
Earlier, ACC sent a notice to Bilkis Hossain to appear at the Commission’s headquarters yesterday in connection with laundering of money to the United Kingdom by her husband.
ACC sources said that Dr Mosharraf laundered £ 8.40 lakh (Tk 9.53 crore) to Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Bank in London when he was a health minister during four-party alliance tenure.
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.