Dhaka, Sept. 11 -- Staff Reporter Businessman Showkat Ali Chowdhury is the chairman of Eastern Bank. Primarily known as a shipping businessman. The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has received information about the transaction of more than eight thousand crore taka by this businessman from Chittagong and his family members in various bank accounts. This information is known from a source of an investigative report of the organization prepared last August.

The BFIU says the transactions in the bank accounts of Showkat Ali Chowdhury and his family members are suspicious. The agency suspects that Showkat Ali Chowdhury has also built assets abroad by laundering money through various irregularities. This is under investigation b...