ACC case against BNP\\\'s Mosharraf

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case Thursday against BNP standing committee member Dr Khandoker Mosharraf Hossain for allegedly laundering Tk 95.39 million to the United Kingdom.
ACC Deputy Director Nasim Anwar filed the case with Ramna Police Station in the city, Public Relations Officer of the anti-graft body Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the reporters on the day.
ACC officials said Dr Hossain siphoned off about 0.80 million British pound to the United Kingdom when he was the health and family welfare minister during 2001-2006.
"The money was found in a joint account of Dr Hossain and his wife Bilkis Akter Hossain at Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking, Guernsey," said an ACC official.
The ACC with the help of the Attorney General's Office collected the information about the corruption allegation from the British authorities through a mutual legal assistance request (MLAR), he said.
Earlier, the anti-graft watchdog had filed another case against Dr Hossain for the same allegation. On October 17, 2008, the ACC brought charges against the former health minister for the same accusation but excluded the name of his wife from the list of the accused.
In a charge sheet, the investigation officer (IO) of the case ACC Deputy Assistant Director Aftab Hossain mentioned that Mosharraf had amassed wealth worth Tk 91.09 million illegally and concealed information of wealth worth Tk 43.15 million to the commission.