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.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit yesterday asked banks and non-bank financial institutions to provide it with information on all accounts of Jubo League Chairman Mohammad Omar Faruque Chowdhury.

The cabinet endorses draft of the proposed change to money laundering prevention law with a provision of double punishment for offenders.