The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sent 71 Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests to authorities concerned in various countries recently in a bid to recover laundered money from Bangladesh.
Of the institutions, 27 have already responded to the anti-graft body, ACC Director General (prevention) Md Akhtar Hossain told journalists today (1 October) following a meeting with a visiting European Union delegation at the ACC office.
Various issues were discussed in the meeting with the EU delegation.
“We asked assistance from the EU delegation in recovering the laundered money. They have promised to help us,” said Akhtar.
“The highest amount of money has been laundered into the European Union, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia,” he said.
In criminal matters, MLA is a mechanism whereby countries cooperate with one another in order to provide and obtain formal assistance in the prevention, suppression, investigation and prosecution of crime to ensure that the criminals do not escape or sabotage the due process of law for lack of evidence that is available in different countries.
