A CIID team picked MA Kader up in connection with two cases filed with Chawkbazar Police Station in the city in the afternoon, said Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR), while speaking at a press conference.
He will be produced before a Dhaka court on Thursday, the NBR chairman said.
Earlier in the day, three cases were filed with Chawkbazar Police Station accusing 17 people over laundering a total of Tk 919.56 crore. Of them, 13 are Janata Bank officials.
MA Kader was made accused in two of the cases involving Tk 422.46 crore and Tk 15.84 crore respectively.
Mosharraf also said a process is on to file cases against some organisations involved in money laundering. “We’ve noticed that about Tk 50,000 crore was siphoned out of Bangladesh,” he said.
The accused in the cases include Sultana Begum (Moni) Managing Director of Crescent Leather Products Ltd and Crescent Tanneries Ltd, Abdul Aziz, chairman of Rimex Footwear Ltd, and Litul Jahan (Mira), managing Director of Rimex Footwear Ltd.