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Between 2014 and 2016, a total of 8 lakh 32,938 dollars was conducted in eight ‘transactions’ through those three banks, at the current exchange rate in Bangladeshi taka amounting to more than taka 6 crore.
Among them, Islami Bank Bangladesh and Social Islami Bank (SIBL) received money from abroad. And money has been sent abroad from the state-owned Rupali Bank.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), an alliance of investigative journalists, released some 2,500 documents on Sunday related to suspicious transactions of various banks in the hands of the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINSEN).
Several banks sent information about these transactions to Finsen between 2000 and 2016. More than 2 trillion have been transferred in these transactions, the source and purpose of which are in doubt, the banks told Finsen.
If there is a suspicion about a transaction, banks generally report it to Finsen in the form of a confidential report, called “Suspicious Activity Reports.” In all these cases, money laundering or illicit activities have not been proven.
After BuzzFeed News obtained these secret documents, they turned them over to the ICIJ. These documents were then delivered to 108 media outlets in six countries, which are being published step by step under the name ‘Finsen Files’.
Standard Chartered and the US-based Bank of New York Mellon Corporation have acted as international media in the eight suspicious transactions reported by three banks in Bangladesh on the ICIJ website. They told Finsen they had questions about the eight transactions.
Islamic Bank: In three Australian and New Zealand Banking (ANZ) transactions on August 23 and September 1, 2017, Islami Bank of Bangladesh received 3 lakh 36,133 dollars.
SIBL: On April 14, 2014, £ 1,700 came from the Latvian Regional Investment Bank to the Islami Social Bank of Bangladesh.
Silver bank: Deutsche Bank of Germany sent a total of four lakh 95,204 in three transactions on September 15 and 22, 2016 from Rupali Bank of Bangladesh.
Bdnews24.com did not know the statement of the banks in this regard.
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