All lockers of BB officials frozen
Staff Correspondent
The Bangladesh Bank’s anti-money laundering unit has ordered to freeze all the lockers of the central bank’s former and present officials after an investigation confirmed some officials amassed undeclared assets in the lockers.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked Bangladesh Bank to avoid opening new lockers and freezing the existing ones for central bank officials to prevent them from withdrawing their illegal assets, Bangladesh Bank Director Shahriar Siddiqui confirmed on Tuesday.
The ACC Director Kazi Sayemuzzaman sent a letter in this regard to the central bank on Sunday. The finance adviser agreed with the need to freeze the lockers in a meeting with ACC chairman on 30 January.
As per the ACC letter to BB, ACC officials, in the presence of an executive magistrate, found 55,000 euro, $1.70 lakh, FDR worth Tk70 lakh, over one kilogram of gold in three sealed cans of former BB deputy governor Sitangshu Kumar Sur Chowhdury.
A review of the locker registers revealed sealed safes operated by some other BB officials as well, ACC said in its letter.
