Suspicion of unreported assets: All lockers of Bangladesh Bank officials frozen

All personal lockers in the coin vault of the Bangladesh Bank’s high-security area have been frozen. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) suspects that these special lockers contain large amounts of unreported assets.

The lockers were allocated to current and retired officials and employees of the central bank. The Commission believes that these individuals have stored assets obtained through abuse of power, irregularities, and corruption.

To ensure that these officials cannot remove any assets from the lockers, ACC Director Kazi Sayemuzzaman sent a letter to the governor of the central bank last Sunday, requesting the freezing of all the lockers.

The letter states that on January 30, ACC Chairman Dr Mohammad Abdul Momen met with Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed at the Secretariat to discuss the ACC’s activities and asset recovery efforts. During the meeting, the issue of the assets stored in the Bangladesh Bank vault was also discussed. The finance adviser gave his approval to freeze the assets in the vault.