UNB, Dhaka :The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has initiated a move to probe the allegation of money-laundering and accumulation of illegal wealth by DATCO Group chairman Dr Moosa Bin Shamsher, a controversial businessman.”The Commission at its regular meeting on Monday decided to launch a probe into the alleged graft of Dr Moosa Bin Shamsher,” ACC commissioner M Shahabuddin told reporters at his office.Dr Moosa Bin Shamsher featured as cover story in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine (London) and many other business magazines, including Business Asia, revealing that he has accumulated wealth worth about $ 7 billion.ACC commissioner Shahabuddin said that as per the reports published in international media about his lifestyle, income and income sources, the ACC thinks that ‘his wealth accumulation is unusual’. “So, the ACC has decided to launch a probe against Moosa (Bin Shamsher),” he added.ACC deputy director Mir Zainul Abedin Shibly has been appointed to conduct probe into the alleged graft of Moosa.Moosa Bin Shamsher, a Bangladeshi business magnate, who is the chairman and CEO of DATCO Group, A pioneer of manpower export in Bangladesh, he has also achieved notoriety for purportedly being a prominent name in the international weapons industry during the 1970s and 1980s.In 2007, a renowned Malta based CA firm’s audit report revealed by FIU, states that he made $10 billion, mostly from the international arms trading by selling tanks, fighter planes and ICBMs as well as from power brokerage that he had carried outside Bangladesh.
