BFIU orders banks to freeze accounts of ex-minister Saifuzzaman, wife UCB chairman Rukhmila

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has ordered all banks in the country to freeze the accounts of former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and his wife United Commercial Bank chairman Rukhmila Zaman.

The anti-money laundering agency issued the directive on Monday.

On Sunday, the BFIU  asked the banks to block all types of withdrawals through the individual or business accounts of former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, his wife Nuran Fatema, and their daughter Nafisa Jumyina Mahmud.