ACC’s Deputy Director Shamsul Alam started to question him after he arrived at the anti-graft watchdog's headquarters around 9:30am on Monday, the commission’s spokesman Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said. The national anti-graft agency sent a letter to Mintoo asking him to appear at its headquarters on Oct 31. The summons notice was addressed to his Multimode Group, located in the Anchor Tower at the capital’s Bir Uttam CR Dutta road. Mintoo is accused of taking loans using fake documents, dodging billions in taxes, making suspicious transactions in collusion with bankers, amassing wealth from undisclosed sources and smuggling money out of the country. Mintoo, a former president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), was known to be close to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the 1990s.

Source: bd News24 November 05, 2018 08:03 UTC