Recovering laundered money: ACC writes to 71 countries seeking legal assistance

The Anti-Corruption Charge (ACC) has sent Mutual Appropriate Assistance (MLA) requests to 71 countries no longer too long ago in a disclose to get better laundered money from Bangladesh.

Of the countries, 27 hold already responded to the anti-graft body, ACC Director Total (prevention) Md Akhtar Hossain told journalists this day (1 October) following a assembly with a visiting European Union delegation on the ACC location of work.

Various factors had been discussed within the assembly with the EU delegation.

“We requested the encourage of the EU delegation in convalescing the laundered money. They’ve promised to support us,” stated Akhtar.

“The top possible sum of cash has been laundered into the European Union, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia,” he stated.

In legal issues, MLA is a mechanism whereby countries cooperate with one one other in characterize to provide and have formal assistance within the prevention, suppression, investigation and prosecution of crime to develop certain the criminals design no longer shatter out or sabotage the due strategy of regulations for lack of evidence that is on hand in varied countries.