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Govt to watch source of fund for violence

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 10 March 2015

Joynal Abedin Khan :
The government has decided to watch the key fund now being used for financing political violence, arson attacks and explosions across the country during the ongoing blockade and hartal programmes of BNP-led alliance.
The authorities concerned already have started all kinds of procedures and mechanism to check the fund movement for creating violence, Ministry sources said.
Law enforcing agencies, banks, financial institutions and mobile phone operators have been directed to bring the popular ‘on-the-go service’ under firm observation so that doubtful transactions can be traced and legal procedures can be implemented, they added. Clients are not required to supply identification for transaction of money thru the mobile banking according to the existing rules and regulations, Sadequzzaman Sazu, a high official of Bangladesh Bank told the New Nation on Monday.
Around one lakh mobile banking accounts have been created using fake information over the last three months, intelligence sources said.
At least 25 organizations are patronizing the terror attacks during the political programmes, they added.
The Bangladesh Bank and police detectives are jointly working to identify and prepare a list of these organizations, they further said.
Following this information, Bangladesh Bank has identified more than 98,000 mobile banking accounts where the clients have been carrying out suspicious transactions.
Intelligence agencies have found that large amounts of money are being transferred – from home and abroad – through banking channels, hundi (informal personal channels) and courier services to finance arson and violence.
The central bank has brought this matter to the attention of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and the mobile operators. The authorities have also been asked to put the activities of these accounts on hold, another sources said.
“We had a meeting with the chief executive officers and the heads of money laundering prevention departments of all the banks,” said, AHM Razee Hassan, Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank. The central bank has asked the banks to keep records of suspicious senders and receivers and file regular reports, said Hassan who is also the head of the central bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit.
Meanwhile, officials from several district administrations recently held a meeting with regional bankers, law enforcement agencies and mobile phone operators with the same purpose, he added. Regional area managers of the courier services and the mobile phone operators have been asked to keep records of the senders and receivers for any transaction above Tk 20,000, Rasheduzzaman Mia, Joint Director of Bangladesh Bank told the New Nation on Monday.
According to a Bangladesh Bank circular in 2013, the mobile banking accounts cannot exceed Tk10,000. The same circular stipulates that a mobile banking account-holder can withdraw up to Tk 25,000 per day and a maximum of Tk1,25,000 every month, he said.
At police custodies, some arrested arsonists mentioned the names of some organizations and patronisers during the interrogation, said Monirul Islam, Joint-Commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).