Bank accounts of 17 people with Iskcon ties, including Chinmoy, frozen

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has ordered to freeze the monetary institution accounts of 17 of us linked with the Global Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) Bangladesh, including its ragged leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, for 30 days.

The BFIU, which operates below the Bangladesh Bank, sent this instruction to a form of banks and monetary establishments of the country the day outdated to this (28 November), suspending all kinds of all kinds of transactions in these accounts for a month, experiences Prothom Alo.

The other 16 of us are Kartik Chandra De, Anik Perfect friend, Saroj Roy, Sushanta Das, Biswa Kumar Singha, Chandidas Bala, Jaydev Karmakar, Lipi Rani Karmakar, Sudhama Gaur Das, Laxman Kanti Das, Priyatosh Das, Rupan Das, Rupan Kumar Dhar, Ashish Purohit, Jagadish Chandra Adhikari and Sajal Das.

At the identical time, the BFIU has requested the banks and monetary establishments to ship legend-linked files – equivalent to legend opening types, KYC types, updated transaction statements from the starting up build, and quite a bit others. – of your total accounts of all kinds of companies owned by these 17 participants internal the following three working days.

On 25 October, Chinmoy, the spokesperson of Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagaran Jote who’s moreover known as Chandan Kumar Dhar, used to be accused in a sedition case for allegedly disrespecting Bangladesh’s national flag by hoisting a saffron flag above it during a rally organised by the Bangladesh Sanatan Jagaran Mancha in Chattogram city.

The case used to be filed by local BNP leader Firoz Khan, who used to be later expelled from the celebration over the concern.

Chinmoy, ragged spokesperson of Iskcon Bangladesh, used to be arrested by police at Hazrat Shahjalal Global Airport in Dhaka at spherical 4:30pm remaining Monday (25 November).

The following day, at 11am, Chinmoy used to be offered earlier than a Chattogram court, which rejected his bail plea and sent him to jail.

A substantial neighborhood of of us believed to be supporters of Chinmoy blocked the penal complicated van carrying him to jail for approximately two and a half hours. Later, the police dispersed the protesters by throwing sound grenades and took Chinmoy to jail.

Severely injured in the course of the allege, legal professional Saiful Islam Alif used to be rescued from the alley of Rangam Conference Hall opposite the principle entrance to the court and taken to the sanatorium, the build doctors declared him boring.

The incident ended in lots of calls coming in stressful the ban of Iskcon, which has distanced itself from Chinmoy.