News Desk :
The National Board of Revenue has sought financial information of former Bangladesh deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury and current executive director Md Shah Alam and their spouses and other family members following allegations of bribery.
Central Intelligence Cell of the revenue board on Thursday asked all the banks and non-bank financial institutions to provide details of transactions carried out by the people in the past seven-and-half years.
The other people include Suparna Sur Chowdhury, wife of SK Sur Chowdhury, and Shaheen Akhter Shalley and Nasrin Begum, wives of Shah Alam.
The CIC asked the banks and NBFIs to provide the information, including details of current accounts, savings accounts, term-loan accounts, foreign currency accounts, credit card, locker, savings and investment schemes, beneficiary owners’ accounts or any other account, including dormant ones, maintained by the people within seven days.
The NBR took the move following a confessional statement given by former International Leasing and Financial Services Limited managing director Rashedul Haque before a Dhaka court on February 3.
In the statement, Rashedul said that at least two senior Bangladesh Bank officials had helped former NRB Global Bank managing director Proshanto Kumar Halder in embezzling over Tk 3,000 crore from the leasing company.
Rashedul, considered as a key associate of Halder, gave the confessional statement after a three-day Anti-Corruption Commission interrogation following his arrest on January 24.
Earlier on February 4, the central bank relived Shah Alam from the charge of two departments – the Department of Financial Institutions and Markets, and the Department of Bank Inspection-2 -and assigned him to lesser important works.
The Department of Financial Institutions is designated to oversee non-bank financial institutions, including ILFSL.
On January 5, the High Court slapped an international travel ban on 25 people, including the family members of PK Halder and former BB deputy governor SK Sur, for their alleged connections with Halder.
