‘Our names didn’t in Panama Papers, just harassment’

Staff Correspondent: Chairman of United Group Hasan Mahmud Raza has claimed, “Our names did not appear in the Panama Papers.  We have checked all things, and anybody can see it on website. It is just a harassment”.

Hasan Mahmud Raza said this to journalists after Anti-Corruption Commission quizzed him on Monday.

S M M Akhter Hamid Bhuiya, deputy director of ACC, interrogated the chairman of the United Group from 9.15am to 12.00pm.

ACC summoned for interrogation seven individuals whose names have been appeared in the leaks of Panama Papers and Paradise Papers on July 8.

On the other hand, Ericson Johan Andres Wilson of WMV Limited, MahtaburRahman of Selcon Shipping Company and FarhanYakubur Rahman of Intridip Group will have to face the ACC on July 17 for the allegation of money laundering whose names have been appeared in Paradise Papers.

Earlier, chairman of ACC Iqbal Mahmood on June 20 ordered all ACC officials to complete enquiries by June 30 against individuals or entities whose names have been appeared in the leaks of Panama Papers and Paradise Papers.

Names of many Bangladeshis have been appeared in Panama, Paradise and other leaks on the murky world of illicit offshore finance.

risingbd/Dhaka/July 16, 2018/M A Rahman/Mukul