ACC urges BB to freeze officials' deposits in lockers

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has requested Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur to take necessary steps to temporarily freeze all bank officials' safe deposits in lockers in its vault, reports UNB.

A letter, signed by ACC Director Kazi Sayemuzzaman, was sent to the central bank governor on Tuesday, ACC Deputy Director Akhtarul Islam told UNB.

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed agreed on the need to freeze the lockers at a meeting with ACC Chairman Dr Mohammad Abdul Momen on January 30.

As per the ACC letter, ACC officials, in the presence of an executive magistrate, found 55,000 euro, $1.70 lakh, FDR worth Tk70 lakh, over one kilogram of gold in three sealed cans of former BB deputy governor Sitangshu Kumar Sur Chowhdury.

The information on the assets was not mentioned in the income tax returns, it said.