Central Bank Calls For Report On Terror Financing In Bangladesh
Siddique Islam - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country's central bank, has asked all the banks and financial institutions to submit reports on any financial transaction of Abd Al Hamid Sulaiman Al Mujil, his entity and aliases for his alleged link with the al-Qaeda network. The central bank of Bangladesh issued the directive on Wednesday asking chief executives of all scheduled banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to submit the reports to the Anti-Money Laundering Department of the BB by October 9. The BB said in its directive that Abd Al Hamid Sulaiman Al Mujil, executive director of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), was included in the UN Sanctions list. The Security Council Committee, established pursuant to the paragraph 6 of the Resolution 1267, oversees implementation by states of the sanctions imposed by the Security Council on individuals and entities belonging or related to the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organization and maintains a list of individuals and entities for this purpose. The BB also sent a four-page list of entity and aliases of Abd Al Hamid Sulaiman Al Mujil to the banks and NBFIs for scrutinizing any such financial transactions properly.
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