Probe into 'suspicious bank transactions' a foul play

A BNP senior leader on Tuesday alleged the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an investigation into a 'false and politically-motivated' allegation of 'suspicious' bank transactions by eight top leaders as part of a government's 'foul play' to mislead people and weaken the party's movement, reports UNB.
"The allegation has been brought against us as part of a government's blueprint. This is nothing, but a baseless, false, fabricated and politically-motivated campaign to malign BNP," said party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.
The BNP leader made the remarks while speaking at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office in the city on Monday.
He also said the move was taken as the government is trying to play another 'foul game' over the next general election to keep BNP out of its race like the 2014 one.
"We strongly protest and condemn such false propaganda."
He urged the government to refrain from carrying out such filthy campaign against its opponents.
According to media reports, the ACC has launched a probe into an allegation of 'suspicious' bank transactions of huge amount of money by eight top BNP leaders in a month.
The BNP leaders are Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, party standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and Nazrul Islam Khan, vice-chairmen M Morshed Khan, Abdul Awal Mintoo and joint secretary general Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel and executive committee member Tabith Awal.
Referring to the report, Mosharraf said the ACC found suspicious transaction of huge money through his bank account with Dutch-Bangla Bank.
"I would like to let the nation and the ACC know any of my family members and I never ever have or had any account with Dutch-Bangla Bank. It can be assumed through it that the report is how much false, fictitious and politically motivated."
The BNP leader thinks as BNP's movement has started gathering pace and the party's popularity is growing, the government has taken such a move to divert people's attention to a different direction and thus hamper the movement.
He warned that people will neither be confused with such 'false allegation' nor they will allow the government to stage another January-5 like drama in the name of polls.
Nazrul Islam Khan said the ACC has brought an allegation that he has made a transaction of over Tk 70 million in a month. "I think I even didn't make transaction of such huge amount money in my entire life. It's one kind of vulgar mockery of the government to defame us."