DHAKA: In a quizzing of Anti-Corruption Commission, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain’s wife Bilkis Akter admitted that she siphoned off money to United Kingdom.   

Bikis informed that she had a joint account with his husband in a London bank.       

ACC deputy director Ahsan Ali made the disclosure on Tuesday to journalists after quizzing her.       

ACC Bilkis Akter in connection with a money laundering case from 10:30am to 12:15pm.         

Earlier Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain admitted to ACC that he has around Tk 9.53 crore in United Kingdom’s bank but claimed that the money is legal and he earned the money in UK.                  

ACC sources said though he denied money laundering but an investigation by London Metropolitan Police found that the money has been laundered to Lloyds TSB Bank in London in a joint account with his wife.        
The anti-graft body further said the BNP leader deposited around Tk 9.53 crore illegally in two UK-based banks in 2001-2005 while he was minister of BNP-led government. Mosharraf owned a huge amount of wealth during that period, ACC sources added.     

BDST: 1339 HRS, APR 08, 2014