Ex-AB Bank chairman among 3 held

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today arrested three persons including AB Bank's former chairman M Wahidul Haque on charge of laundering around Tk 165 crore.

The two other arrestees are: Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, chief of the bank’s treasury department, and Saiful Haque, a businessman and also son-in-law of former minister M Morshed Khan.

A team of the ACC arrested them from different places in Segunbagicha area of Dhaka this afternoon, the anti-graft body’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The Daily Star.

The three were allegedly involved in laundering Tk 165 crore to Dubai-based company in Singapore, ACC source said.