Bank accounts of Shamim Osman family frozen

Staff Reporter:

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday asked banks to freeze the accounts of for-mer lawmaker Shamim Osman, his brother and former lawmaker AKM Salim Osman and their family members.
The central bank also instructed the banks to suspend locker facilities extended to the members of the families for the next 30 days.
Besides, banks were asked to suspend the transactions in their privately-owned institutional accounts.
The BFIU sought an update on the accounts in the next five working days.