Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) has arrested the chairman of Crescent Leather Products Ltd and Crescent Tanneries Ltd MA Kader over money-laundering charge.
A CIID team picked him up in connection with two cases filed with Chawkbazar Police Station in Dhaka on Wednesday, said Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR).
The NBR chief said this while speaking at a press conference yesterday. Kader will be produced before a Dhaka court on Thursday, Mr Mosharraf said.
Earlier in the day, three cases were filed with Chawkbazar Police Station accusing 17 people over laundering a total of Tk 9.19 billion. Of them, 13 are Janata Bank officials, reports UNB.
MA Kader was made accused in two of the cases involving Tk 4.22 billion and Tk 158.40 million respectively.
Mosharraf also said a process is on to file cases against some organisations involved in money laundering. "We've noticed that about Tk 500.0 billion was siphoned out of Bangladesh," he said.
The accused in the cases include Sultana Begum (Moni) Managing Director of Crescent Leather Products Ltd and Crescent Tanneries Ltd, Abdul Aziz, chairman of Rimex Footwear Ltd, and Litul Jahan (Mira), managing Director of Rimex Footwear Ltd.