The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday served notices on Basundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his wife Afroza Begum to submit their wealth statement on charges of acquiring wealth beyond their known income source and laundering money abroad.
ACC Director General Akhter Hossain told journalists at a briefing at the ACC headquarters at Segunbagicha in Dhaka.
Allegations have that the ACC, Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his wife Afroza Begum have acquired moveable and immoveable properties worth over Tk 252 crore and Tk 453 crore respectively.
They jointly laundered money to St Kitts and Nevis in Caribbean country for citizenship and also illegally laundered money to Switzerland, the ACC DG added.
A joint team of the ACC led by its Deputy Director Sheikh Golam Maula has been working on it.
Other members of the team are-Assistant Directors Sajid Ur Rahman and Mahmudul Hassan Bhuiyan, Inspector Mehedi Maksud of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Tax Inspector Md Abdullah Al Mamun.
ACC Director (Money Laundering) Mohammad Morshed Alam has been supervising the investigation, the DG added.