The court has also fined the convicts double the Tk 153.35 million they laundered. The Anti-Corruption Commission filed a dozen cases against 54 Bismillah Group officials in 2013 on charges of borrowing Tk 12 billion in fraudulent loans from several banks, money laundering and corruption. The cases were filed by ACC Director Iqbal Hossain at Dhaka’s Ramna, Motijheel and New Market police stations. “There are many other cases against the Bismillah Group,” state ACC lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajol told bdnews24.com. “This is just the first verdict.”The 2013 case filed at the New Market Police Station accused the suspects of laundering Tk 153 million.

Source: bd News24 September 10, 2018 10:18 UTC