BFIU seeks facts on accounts held by SK Sur, Shah Alam
In an ‘unprecedented’ approach, the Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of Bangladesh Bank has sought information on the lender accounts of the central bank’s former Deputy Governor SK Sur Chowdhury and his wife, along with those of serving executive director Shah Alam and his two wives.
Both officials are accused of getting bribes from top executives of some leasing companies.
According to official resources for the BB, the BFIU provides sent letters to all or any the banking institutions asking them to post the relevant bank account details.
“The BFIU has directed the banks to submit all the details, including transactions, of their accounts by Tuesday,” said a BB source, adding that it's unprecedented for the central bank to get bank account information of its officials.
The letters mentioned the names of Sur Chowdhury and his wife Suparna Sur Chowdhury, and Shah Alam and his two wives Shaheen Akter Shelley and Nasrin Begum.
All of them have already been asked to send their profile opening varieties, transactions and other facts.
Just lately, a letter was sent to the banking institutions from the intelligence cell of the National Table of Revenue (NBR) requesting information on Sur Chowdhury and Shah Alam, in relation to the investigation in to the scam engineered simply by PK Haldar.
The names of Sk Sur Chowdhury and Shah Alam found the forefront following testimony distributed by Rashidul Islam, a former managing director of International Leasing And Financial Products and services Limited, prior to the court about their involvement in acquiring bribes.
The leasing company was come across the ground under the control of PK Haldar who escaped the united states to avert trial.
