The Anti-Corruption Commission has found a total of 722 bank accounts in the name of 37 companies of the Destiny Group, the scandalous Multi-Level Marketing company, an ACC official told New Age. Earlier, the probe team of the commission found a total of 282 accounts of the group in several banks. ‘The probe team found 440 more accounts while it almost completed the investigation based on 282 accounts,’ he added.
The probe team would require some additional time to complete its task as the team started summation of newly founded accounts, a member of the team said.
He said that the team took help of some bankers to complete the summation during this month.
The official said that all companies of the group opened more than one accounts in different banks and in most of the cases they did not maintain any receipts of financial transactions.
According to a Bangladesh Bank report, the Destiny Group laundered around of Tk 5,113.95 crore from 2002 to 2006 through 282 accounts by its three sister concerns — Destiny 2000 Limited, Destiny Tree Plantation Limited and Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited.
The BB report said Destiny Group had a total balance of only Tk 18.51 crore in 282 bank accounts while the top executives of the group laundered at least Tk 5,113.95 crore.
The report said that Destiny 2000 started operating bank accounts from 2000, DMCSL from 2005 and Destiny Tree Plantation from 2006.
The companies were maintaining their accounts mainly with Islami Bank, Shahjalal Islami Bank, Southeast Bank, the Trust Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Prime Bank, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, BRAC Bank, City Bank and Premier Bank Limited, the BB report said.
At a recent press conference, the commission secretary M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury told reporters that the investigation report on the Desteny Group scam will be submited to the commission in late September of early October.
The ACC on July 31, 2012 filed two cases with Kalabagan police in the capital against 22 senior executives, including Destiny president M Harun-ur-Rashid, a former army chief, and managing director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin for laundering abroad about Tk 3,285 crore.
-With New Age input
