Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) - The bank accounts-related information on three former central bank governors and six others, including four deputy governors, have been sought from all the country’s scheduled banks.
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), the intelligence agency of the country's financial sector, issued a letter in this connection asking the banks to provide the account details of suspected persons by three working days that will get expired on August 18 next.
The three former governors are Dr. Atiur Rahman, Fazle Kabir, and Abdur Rouf Talukder.
The four former deputy governors are SK Sur Chowdhury (now in prisons), SM Moniruzzaman, Kazi Sayedur Rahman, and Abu Farah Md Nasser.
The two former BFIU heads are Abu Hena Mohammad Razee Hassan and Md Masud Biswas.
In the letter, the BFIU has also sought information, including account opening forms, KYC (Know Your Customer) documents, transaction profiles and related data from the banks.
Those governors, deputy governors and BFIU heads led the banking industry as regulators during the Awami League-governing regime.
After ending nearly 17 years of Awami League’s regime, massive financial irregularities in the banking industry came to the spotlight after the changeover in state power following last year’s July-August mass uprising.
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