Dhaka, Feb. 4 -- All personal lockers in the coin vault of the Bangladesh Bank's high-security area have been frozen. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) suspects that these special lockers contain large amounts of unreported assets.

The lockers were allocated to current and retired officials and employees of the central bank. The Commission believes that these individuals have stored assets obtained through abuse of power, irregularities, and corruption.

To ensure that these officials cannot remove any assets from the lockers, ACC Director Kazi Sayemuzzaman sent a letter to the governor of the central bank last Sunday, requesting the freezing of all the lockers.

The letter states that on January 30, ACC Chairman Dr Mohammad Abdul Mom...