ACC summons Moosa bin Shamsher

The Anti Corruption Commission has summoned business tycoon Moosa bin Shamsher to probe if he has illegal wealth. Letters have been sent to his Gulshan home and the DATCO Group chief’s office at Banani, said ACC Deputy Director Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya on Thursday. The commission in a meeting decided to probe Shamsher on November 3 after a report by Business Asia said he had $ 7 billion stashed away at a Swiss bank. Moosa bin Shamsher’s eldest son Bobby Hajjaj is special advisor to Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad. The ACC, in 2011, had decided to probe Shamsher after another newspaper report said he had Tk 510 billion in Swiss banks, but the move soon lost pace. Now one of the wealthiest persons of Bangladesh, Moosa bin Shamsher began trading in manpower through the DATCO Group he founded in 1974. The businessman is known to foreign media as ‘Bangladesh’s prince’, according to a news agency.