ACC interrogating United Group chairman, directors
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started quizzing the chairman and three directors of United Group in regard to Panama Papers leak on Monday morning.
ACC deputy director SMM Akhter Hamid Bhuiyan started to interrogate the four around 10am, ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar said.
The four are United Group chairman Hasan Mahmud Raza and three directors Khandkar Mainul Ahasan, Akhtar Mahmud and Ahmed Ismail Hossain.
ACC summoned for interrogation seven individuals whose names have been appeared in the leaks of Panama Papers and Paradise Papers on July 8.
On the other hand, Ericson Johan Andres Wilson of WMV Limited, MahtaburRahman of Selcon Shipping Company and FarhanYakuburRahman of Intridip Group will have to face the ACC on July 17 for the allegation of money laundering whose names have been appeared in Paradise Papers, reports UNB.
Earlier, chairman of ACC Iqbal Mahmood on June 20 ordered all ACC officials to complete enquiries by June 30 against individuals or entities whose names have been appeared in the leaks of Panama Papers and Paradise Papers.
Names of many Bangladeshis have been appeared in Panama, Paradise and other leaks on the murky world of illicit offshore finance.
