The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found evidence of money laundering by former five members of parliament and ministers of BNP-Jamaat alliance.Shahabuddin Chuppu, commissioner of ACC disclosed this to the newsmen at the media centre of the ACC on Thursday noon. “Many MPs and ministers including Dr. Khondker Mosharraf Hossain of the four party government laundered huge amount of money to foreign countries. We have already got evidence against five of them who be divulged to the media in the interest of conducting investigation.”Our country has become champion of corruption several times when the four-party alliance government was in power. The drive of ACC against corruption will continue so that the country does not become champion in corruption again,” he said. Shahabuddin Chuppu said the issue of money laundering is never taken lightly and ACC would not spare anybody involved in such crime irrespective of their political identity. Referring to Dr Mosharraf, he said, ACC has filed a case against him as per allegation that he laundered a big amount of money abroad when he was a minister. His laundered money is under seize in a bank of London. The allegation against him is a serious matter as he has laundered the money violating the rules and regulations of the country, he said, adding that the ACC needs further information from him. So, he said, ACC may seek seven to ten days remand for him.ACC with the help of police arrested Dr. Mosharraf Hossain, facing money-laundering charges, from his Gulshan house in Dhaka on Wednesday night. Ramna Zone’s Assistant Commissioner Shibli Noman said that Hossain had been shown arrested in an ACC money laundering case. ACC on February 6 filed a money laundering case against Hossain, who was the health minister in the BNP-led 2001-06 government.He is alleged to have laundered around Tk 95 million during that stint as minister. He was interrogated at ACC for couple of hours on Thursday. The BNP policymaker had been granted anticipatory bail by the High Court, which was scrapped by the Appellate Division on February 24.
