ACC launches investigation against 8 BNP leaders

The Counter Defilement Commission (ACC) has now propelled examination concerning charges of tax evasion, storing up unlawful riches and suspicious bank exchanges against eight BNP pioneers.

The counter debasement guard dog has propelled the examination scarcely two months after a court sent the head of nation's principle resistance political gathering, Bangladesh Patriot Gathering (BNP), and previous PM Khaleda Zia to imprison in a unite case documented by the ACC.

Another case documented by ACC is pending against her. Furthermore, somewhere in the range of 25 BNP pioneers are confronting join cases documented by ACC.

The BNP pioneers against whom the ACC propelled the examination are: standing board individuals Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and Mirza Abbas, two bad habit administrators Abdul Awal Mintoo and M Morshed Khan, joint secretary general and BNP's Dhaka city's south unit president Habibun-nabi Khan Sohel and Mintoo's child and official advisory group part Tabith Awal.

ACC has additionally started examination against Morshed Khan's child Faisal Morshed Khan.

ACC authorities said the body depended one of its representative chiefs, Shamsul Alam, with the examination against the BNP.

They said the ACC would send letters to banks worried by this week, looking for data about the particular people and would likewise request that the BNP pioneers present their riches proclamations.

ACC authorities said the association has propelled the examination after a few media outlets, citing knowledge sources, distributed news reports that "suspicious exchanges" of as much as Tk 1.25 billon was set aside a few minutes in the financial balances of these BNP pioneers.

They said the majority of those whose financial balance records demonstrate "strange cash withdrawal" are specialists and the volume of exchanges isn't unordinary either, however the withdrawal was made in real money which, ACC authorities stated, has made doubts.

The ACC would check if the cash was spent other than on business purposes.

ACC authorities said charges have it that Abdul Awal Mintoo pulled back some Tk 320 million on 11, 15 and 22 February and his child Tabith Awal pulled back some Tk 200 million around the same time.

Morshed Khan pulled back Tk 180 million on 27 February while his child Faisal pulled back Tk 90 million on 26 February.

It is claimed that some Tk 210 million was pulled back from the ledger of Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain from 3 to 12 Walk and a portion of the cash was pulled back from outside Dhaka.

ACC is likewise guaranteeing that some Tk 160 million was pulled back from the record of Mirza Abbas on 28 February and 4 Walk.

It is likewise being claimed that Tk 70 million was pulled back from the financial balances of Nazrul Islam Khan and Habibun-nabi Khan Sohel at various circumstances.

BNP has from the beginning been blaming the Counter Defilement Commission for serving the interests of the decision quarters.

At a question and answer session on 21 Walk, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi claimed that ACC resembles a one-peered toward creature.

BNP standing panel part Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain stated, "The ACC has propelled this examination in view of the reports distributed in some unjustifiable online gateways. How legitimate are those reports? Neither me nor my relatives have any record with that bank."

Naming the move absolutely political, he mourned that the ACC has deliberately ignored to individuals who have abused millions, particularly when the services and the Bangladesh Bank have proofs.

Senior pioneer Nazrul Islam Khan stated, "This is simply one more outline of the legislature to keep the dynamic BNP pioneers under strain. The nation knows why the ACC is after us when individuals who have regulated debasement are on the loose."

"Such news was distributed on online entry Bangla Insider on 17 Walk. Everybody knows who are behind it. The ACC will now do an examination in light of that report. The association of protected bodies in such politicized acts is discoloring their picture, and that of the nation too," said BNP bad habit executive Abdul Awal Mintoo.

No ACC official was accessible for a remark to this end. ACC representative and secretary Shamsul Arefin's telephone did not get a call in spite of rehashed endeavors. He didn't answer to a content either.

Straightforwardness Universal Bangladesh (TIB) official chief Iftekharuzzaman stated, "We trust the ACC will complete their obligations inside their lawful structure. On the off chance that they organize political personality it will be a hit to their responsibility."