The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of the central bank — BFIU is Bangladesh Government agency responsible for investigating money laundering, suspicious transaction and cash transaction reports and works under Bangladesh bank — has sought the bank account details of five people, including owner of e-commerce company eorange Bithi Akhter and her husband, along with suspended police inspector Sheikh Sohel Rana even as it sent letters to different banks and financial institutions mentioning detailed address of each of the persons as well as their dates of birth and the numbers of the national identity cards, seeking all the details of the transactions carried out by them, from the concerned banks.
Media reports maintained this while adding the BFIU sought to know if any account (including that of Islamic banking) was operated in the past or present in the name of the organisations and persons concerned, along with all details of the account (application form for opening the account with all documents, transaction profile, transaction details from beginning, KYC, etc.) while also wanting to know if any loan account, fixed deposit, LC is opened in their names.
It may be mentioned here that there have been allegations of malpractices and anomalies against many e-commerce entities of late, which led authorities to investigate and take action against the errant players.
