ACC asks tycoon Moosa bin shamsher to submit his wealth statement

The ACC has asked Moosa bin Shamsher to submit his wealth statement.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 19 May 2015, 08:14 PM
Updated : 19 May 2015, 08:14 PM

A Tuesday notice gave him seven working days, ACC Commissioner M Shahabuddin Chuppu told bdnews24.com.

The national anticorruption agency on Nov 3 last year launched investigation into the tycoon’s wealth following a report by Business Asia said he had $7 billion stashed away at a Swiss bank.

The ACC summoned Shamsher on Dec 18 to check if he had laundered the money from Bangladesh.

He went to its Segunbagicha headquarters with a motorcade of eight vehicles and 40 bodyguards.

Known to foreign media as ‘Bangladesh’s prince’, the businessman is related by marriage to Awami League’s presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim. 

His eldest son Bobby Hajjaj had been a special adviser to Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad.

He was sacked when he went against the party decision to run for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor in the Apr 28 city polls.

Shamsher, from Faridpur, began trading in manpower through the DATCO Group he founded in 1974. 
 
But he is better known in foreign media for his alleged ties to weapons trade.