ACC quizzes ex-FBCCI president AK Azad over tax fraud allegations

The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has interrogated former FBCCI President AK Azad for three and a half hours over allegations of evading tax and amassing wealth illegally.

ACC Investigation Officer Mir Zainul Abedin Shibli interrogated him at the commission’s office in Dhaka on Tuesday. 
 
Emerging from the ACC, Azad told reporters: “They called me on the basis of an allegation. I have given my statement.”
 
Asked if it was a conspiracy against him, he said: “I don’t want to comment on that.”  
 
The ACC opened a probe into a complaint of evading millions of taka in tax and amassing wealth illicitly.
 
Earlier, the ACC asked Azad to appear before it on May 9 for the interrogation. In response to his request, the commission extended 10 days and fixed May 22 for the interrogation.  
 
Azad is also the managing director of Ha-Meem Group, a leading supplier of garments and denim fabric to global retailers.
 
One of the ACC officials told bdnews24.com that a person filed a complaint against AK Azad in October last year. 
 
According to the complaint, Azad accumulated a huge amount of wealth by dodging taxes of his different companies and also laundered a huge amount of money abroad.  

Azad along with many other businesses and politicians faced the graft charges during the military-backed caretaker government in 2008.