DHAKA: Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will investigate the involvement of Bangladeshis in tax evasion scam that has been leaked in Panama.

ACC secretary Abu Mohammad Mustafa Kamal confirmed the matter to banglanews on Thursday afternoon (April 7).

According to the official, a three-member prove committee, led by ACC deputy director Akhtar Hamid, has already formed in this regard.

However, the leaked documents, coined as ‘Panama Papers’, mentioned names of some Bangladeshi businesspeople, who are involved in tax evasion.

The committee will investigate the names of Bangladeshi businesspeople mentioned in the 11-million documents held by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, he added.

The law firm passed the documents to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which then shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

BDST: 1847 HRS, APR 07, 2016
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