Published: 12:17 AM, 28 April 2026
ACC summons Saida Moona Tasnim and spouse over graft charges
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has ordered former Bangladesh High Commissioner in Britain Saida Moona Tasnim and her spouse to meet ACC officials for handing over documents about their monetary assets and to face interrogation. ACC is investigating allegations of illegally transferring abroad around 2 thousand crore taka connected with Saida Moona Tasnim.
ACC Deputy Director Akterul Islam conveyed this information to journalists on Monday (27 April 2026). ACC has also issued letters to National Board of Revenue (NBR) and Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) about the allegations over Saida Moona Tasnim.
Relevant sources have reported that Saida Moona Tasnim was posted in Britain as Bangladesh High Commissioner from 2018 to 2024 while ousted ruling party Awami League was in power. Allegedly Saida Moona Tasnim's husband Touhidul Islam Chowdhury and she herself gobbled up huge sums of money through some nominal business enterprises during the Awami League regime and laundered the embezzled funds to foreign countries.
ACC has been scrutinizing these complaints since June 2025 though neither Saida Moona Tasnim nor Touhidul Islam Chowdhury has appeared before ACC as of yet.
>>Shamim Ahmed, AA
