Govt freezes BO accounts of 5 ex-ministers, family members

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has frozen the Beneficiary Owner's (BO) accounts of 20 people including five former ministers.

BSEC stopped the BO accounts following the direction of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) on Thursday (August 29).

The owners of the frozen BO accounts include former minister for home affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, his wife Lutful Tahmina Khan, his son Safi Muddaser Khan and his daughter Shafia Tasnim Khan.

Former foreign minister Mohammed Hasan Mahmud, his spouse Nurun Fatema Hasan and his daughter Nafisa Zumaina Mahmud, and former state minister Mohammad Ali Arafat and his wife Sharmin Mustary are also on the list.

Former state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak, his wife Arifa Jesmin Konika, Former MP from Pirojpur Mohiuddin Maharaj, his wife Umme Kulsum, and his son Sammam Junaid Efti, had their accounts frozen as well.