ACC quizzes Mahi B Chy over money laundering

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday quizzed lawmaker Mahi B Chowdhury over allegation of money laundering to the United States and accumulating wealth from unknown sources.

Mahi arrived at the ACC headquarters in the city's Segunbagicha at around 10:30 am where ACC Deputy Director Jalal Uddin Ahmed questioned him for about three hours, said ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.

However, his wife Ashfa Haque Lopa was also asked by the Commission to appear before it to deliver her statement on same charges but she didn't respond to the call.

The anti-graft authority had summoned the couple on August 04 for the first time to appear before it on August 07 but they sought more time on the day to deliver their statements about the charges.

Considering their appeal, ACC issued fresh notice to them to come to the Commission on August 25.

Mahi is the joint-secretary general of Bikalpadhara Bangladesh and son of former President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury.

He is also a member of parliament elected from Munshiganj-1 constituency.

In the meantime, ACC filed a case against seven people for embezzling over Tk 1.0 billion by setting up a fake cooperative organisation named 'The Dhaka Urban Cooperative Bank Ltd', headquartered in the city's Mirpur.

The accused are - chairman of the organisation Rafiqul Alam, former manager (Narayanganj branch) Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, president of the cooperative society Tahmina Begum, former Dhaka district auditor Lutfar Rahman, former Dhaka district cooperatives officer (currently joint registrar at Department of Cooperatives) Mizanur Rahman, former deputy assistant registrar Khabir Khan, and Department of Cooperatives inspector Mohsin Majumder.

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