Govt wants Zia, Hasina's bank details

TAX NET: The anti-money laundering cell of Bangladesh has asked for all banking-related information on the two ex-PMs.

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New Delhi: There is no respite in sight for former Bangladesh prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.

The military-backed interim government has started scanning their bank accounts to see if they are involved in tax evasion.

The anti-money laundering cell of the Bangladesh Bank and the National Board of Revenue have asked for all banking-related information on them. The bank details of 83 others are also being looked into.

"The central bank called the commercial banks early Wednesday morning and asked them to provide all banking information of Khaleda Zia by mid-day yesterday. Then it again called the banks in the afternoon to ask for Sheikh Hasina's banking information and asked them to provide it by 11:00 am on Thursday," the Daily Star newspaper was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.

In another development, the National Board of Revenue asked banks and non-bank institutions to furnish transaction information of 85 individuals, including Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman, brother Sayeed Eskandar and a number of former ministers and bureaucrats and professionals known to be close to BNP.

Officials said the revenue board would compare the tax returns of the listed persons with their transaction reports to know about their income sources to see if they were involved in tax evasion.