https://www.thedailystar.net/business/economy/news/bfiu-seeks-account-details-10-journalists-3760761

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked banks to provide the accounts details of 10 journalists, including two chief editors and the immediate past president of National Press Club Shafiqur Rahman.

The anti-money laundering agency also sought details of accounts belonging to Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, editor-in-chief of TV Today, Abdul Gaffar Khan, chief in editor of Dainik Amar Somoy, and Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat, acting editor of Dainik Bangla.

Bank accounts details of Ashish Gosh Saikat, chief news editor at independent24.tv, Naznin Nahar Munni, assignment editor of DBC News, Anjan Roy, editor for research of GTV, and Komol Dey, bureau chief of Chattogram at somoynews.tv, AZM Sajjad Hossain, former minister (press) at the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC, and Raju Ahmed, former Narayangaj correspondent of The Daily Jugantor were also sought.

Additionally, the BFIU directed banks to send account details of Sanjib Chatterjee, head of public relations at EXIM Bank.

A top BFIU official said they sought the information from banks last week.

The latest move by the BFIU is part of a series of measures it has taken in the past three months to investigate allegations of money laundering against dozens of former ministers, lawmakers and close allies of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted by a mass uprising on August 5.