The Anti-Corruption Commission has so far sent 71 Mutual Legal Assistance Requests to different countries seeking cooperation for repatriating laundered money.
The commission, however, received 27 replies to the requests, commission director general Akter Hossain told reporters without giving any more details.
The commission organised the media briefing following its meeting with a four-member delegation from the European Union at the commission head office.
In response to a question, Akter said that they had sent the Mutual Legal Assistance Requests to return the money laundered abroad.
鈥業t is sad but true that till now we have got reply for 27 MLARs,鈥� he said, adding that the commission on the day sought cooperation of the European Union delegation in this regard.
鈥榃e have presented the obstacles the ACC faces in carrying out inquiries and investigation before the European Union delegation. We have asked them to cooperate with the destination countries where the money was laundered from Bangladesh,鈥� he added.
At the meeting, he said that the commission mentioned the names of the countries where the money had been laundered, hoping that they would cooperate with the commission in bringing back the laundered money from those countries.
The EU team comprising head of development cooperation Michal Krejza, programme manager for inclusive governance Pablo Padin Perez, Nader Tanja and Kishower Amin met commission chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah.
Anti-corruption commission secretary Khorsheda Yasmeen, director general Aktar Hossain and directors Abdullah-Al-Zahid and Golam Shahriar Chowdhury were also present at the meeting.
The meeting, among other issues, discussed the European Union鈥檚 possible cooperation in enhancing the commission鈥檚 capacity, particularly for preventing money laundering and recovering smuggled assets, commission officials said.
They said that the delegation pledged its full support for the commission.
In the recent weeks the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank held meetings with the commission on various issues, including the return of laundered money.
Those meetings focused on various issues, including investigation of money laundering and other corruption allegations, cybercrime, forensic analysis in the investigation of financial transactions, trade-based money laundering, interrogation techniques of suspects, asset recovery, financial crimes committed through information technology, mutual legal assistance, and information exchange.
Several ACC officials told 抖阴精品 that most replies of the MLARs are seeking specific information from Bangladesh鈥檚 part.
They said that when Bangladesh sent a letter to a foreign country seeking information about the wealth of any particular Bangladeshi national in their country, they in most cases asked Bangladesh that they would share info if Bangladesh give specific data about the wealth of the particular.
