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Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgF noWrap align=right width="1%">From: </TD><TD class=msgFname noWrap width="68%">SGNEWSALTE <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate noWrap align=right width="30%">Dec-18 7:59 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT noWrap align=right width="1%" height=20>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname noWrap width="68%">ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 3) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft width="1%" rowSpan=4> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>4015.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>What about the corrupt money from Myanmar military dictators? Or the money from corrupt Indonesian officials and businessmen? Why we are not freezing their accounts too despite many request to do so? And why is this not reported in 154th?
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Singapore freezes account of Bangladesh ex-premier Khaleda's son
18.12.08 22:03
<HR>Singapore authorities have frozen a bank account of the youngest son of Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia on suspicion of corruption, an official of the country's anti-graft body said on Thursday, dpa reported.
"The anti-corruption commission has launched an investigation into alleged siphoning of money from Bangladesh to Singapore by Arafat Rahman," Hanif Iqbal, the director general of the commission, told a press conference.
He added that the frozen amount was worth about 1.7 million US dollars.
The office of the Singapore attorney general informed the commission that they had temporarily confiscated just over two million Singapore dollars (1.44 million dollars) and more than 261,000 US dollars, held at a bank account there, following a request from Dhaka, Iqbal said.
The amount had been transferred between May 6, 2005 and February 22, 2007, and the transaction was made by a private company owned by Arafat Rahman, who is currently undergoing medical treatment in Thailand, following his release from custody in 2007.
Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission had in 2007 sought cooperation from the international community through a United Nations mechanism, to inform it if any of its citizens had deposited illegally-owned money in financial institutions abroad.
<HR SIZE=1>Edited 12/18/2008 11:00 pm ET by SGNEWSALTE</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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Singapore freezes account of Bangladesh ex-premier Khaleda's son
18.12.08 22:03
<HR>Singapore authorities have frozen a bank account of the youngest son of Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia on suspicion of corruption, an official of the country's anti-graft body said on Thursday, dpa reported.
"The anti-corruption commission has launched an investigation into alleged siphoning of money from Bangladesh to Singapore by Arafat Rahman," Hanif Iqbal, the director general of the commission, told a press conference.
He added that the frozen amount was worth about 1.7 million US dollars.
The office of the Singapore attorney general informed the commission that they had temporarily confiscated just over two million Singapore dollars (1.44 million dollars) and more than 261,000 US dollars, held at a bank account there, following a request from Dhaka, Iqbal said.
The amount had been transferred between May 6, 2005 and February 22, 2007, and the transaction was made by a private company owned by Arafat Rahman, who is currently undergoing medical treatment in Thailand, following his release from custody in 2007.
Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission had in 2007 sought cooperation from the international community through a United Nations mechanism, to inform it if any of its citizens had deposited illegally-owned money in financial institutions abroad.
<HR SIZE=1>Edited 12/18/2008 11:00 pm ET by SGNEWSALTE</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
