Staff Reporter :
The immigration police on Wednesday sent a report containing the names and addresses of 13,931 Bangladeshi nationals having dual citizenships and dual passports to the attorney general office for submission in the High Court.
Inspector (immigration) of the special branch of the police department sent the report, said Anna Khanam Koli, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) who received the report from the immigration police.
In the report, the immigration police have mentioned the present addresses of 13,931 Bangladeshi nationals at home and abroad, said Anna Khanam.
She could not say whether the immigration officials have mentioned in the report the particulars of Bangladeshi nationals with dual citizenships and dual passports who have purchased or built houses abroad by laundering money.
“The report which I have received from the immigration police on dual citizenships and dual passports contains few thousand pages. I cannot say details about its contents. I will submit it to the High Court on Thursday,” AAG Anna Khanam Koli added.
On December 21 last year, the HC directed the concerned department of the government to submit a list with regard to Bangladeshi citizens having dual citizenship and dual passport who frequently moved home and abroad, built and bought houses abroad through corruption and money laundering.
During the hearing on a Suo moto (voluntary move) rule issued on November 22 last year, the HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Ahmed Sohel asked the head of the immigration department under the Special Branch to submit the list after collecting information from records of three international airports, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram and MAG Osmani International Airport in Sylhet, in the country.
Earlier on the same day, the same HC bench issued an injunction to restrain people from laundering money abroad and directed intelligence agencies to take appropriate steps to stop money laundering.
