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Publish: 04 Feb 2025, 04:41 pm
ACC Directive To Freeze All Lockers Of BB Officials || Photo : Collected
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has directed the governor of Bangladesh Bank to freeze all the lockers of the central bank’s former and present officials.
A letter signed by ACC Director Kazi Sayemuzzaman was sent to the governor of the central bank in this regard on Tuesday (February 4).
ACC Deputy Director Akhtarul Islam confirmed the matter.
The finance adviser agreed with the need to freeze the lockers at a meeting with ACC chairman on 30 January.
As per the ACC letter, 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. But the assets were not mentioned in the income tax returns.
A review of the locker registers revealed sealed safes operated by some other BB officials as well, ACC said in its letter.
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