We hope that the BB governor will continue the momentum and spirit to bring order and promote the economy.

The BFIU found Tk 99.7 crore at the accounts of four companies of Md Akiz Uddin, also a former deputy managing director of Islami Bank Bangladesh

The BFIU also sought information related to their loan accounts with guarantee and loan repayment

Bank accounts of their business entities will also remain frozen for the next 30 days

Order has been given to suspend transactions through the accounts for 30 days for now

The BFIU also ordered banks to suspend local facilities extended to them for 30 days

Harun or Rashid has recently been transferred from the detective branch to the crime and operations department

Transactions in their accounts will remain suspended for 30 days

The BFIU asked to freeze the accounts after getting reports about suspicious transactions in their names

A senior official of the anti-money laundering agency confirmed it

The number of suspicious transactions rose 65% year-on-year to 14,106 in FY23

BFIU must be empowered to do more to prevent money laundering

The BFIU says in a meeting with commercial bankers

Zillur is also the executive director of the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS)

Investigators sitting on information about Dubai real estate purchase despite HC order

Why isn’t the govt doing more to stop property purchases abroad through illegal means?

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday froze 230 accounts of several mobile financial service providers as the accountholders were allegedly involved in hundi.

She took advance payment from customers luring them with hefty discounts and then purchased a plot and flat with over Tk 9 crore. Her relatives also purchased property with the customers’ money. 

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) repeatedly sought information from countries including Switzerland on money laundered by Bangladeshis, Bangladesh Bank has said.

Assets of former NRB Global Bank Managing Director (MD) Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder will be confiscated, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin has said.