Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday submitted charges against former BNP lawmaker Mohammad Mosaddek Ali Falu and two others in a case filed on charge of kaundering Tk183.92 crore to Dubai through offshore companies.
The commission seized movable and mmovable properties worth Tk343 crore from him and his wife Mahbuba Sultana after an order issued by a Dhaka court.
The two other accused are RAK Paints Limited Director SAK Ikramuzzaman and Star Ceramics Private Limited Director Syed AK Anwaruzzaman.
ACC Deputy Director and Investigation Officer of the case Md Gulshan Anowar Prodhan submitted the charge sheet in the Senior Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka on Thursday under the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2012.
The IO appealed to the court to issue an arrest warrant against Falu, confirmed it an official of the ACC to the media.
All but Falu are now on bail. Falu was shown “fugitive” in the charge sheet as he did not appear in the court.
Meanwhile, the name of Md Amir Hossain, former Director of RAK Consumer Products Ltd and Star Ceramics Private Ltd, was dropped from the charge sheet, because the charges brought against him could not be proved.
According to the story, in 2010, the accused opened offshore companies named Al Medina International Limited, Three Star Limited and Development EU in Dubai, and siphoned off Tk183.92 crore.
They did not take permission from Bangladesh Bank to operate these companies in Dubai and failed to provide documents to the ACC when asked by.
According to the ACC, Falu, a former advisor to BNP chief Khaleda Zia, amassed illegal wealth for malicious purposes through abuse of power and corruption during the BNP-Jamaat led government in 2001-06.
