Jumbangla Desk: Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit-BFIU has frozen the bank account of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISCON). The accounts of 17 individuals, including Chinmoy Krishna Das, associated with ISKCON and the companies owned by them (except accounts of import and export companies) have also been asked to be suspended.

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A letter in this regard was sent to all banks on Thursday. At the same time, they have been asked to send all information including loans, deposits, business to BFIU within the next three days.

This instruction has been given under Section 23(1)(c) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Generally, BFIU freezes bank accounts in case of money laundering or illegal transactions.

Account Freeze List - Chandan Kumar Dhar alias Chinmoy Krishna Das. His National Identity Card number is 151376510426. Lawyer Saiful Islam Alif was killed near the court in Chittagong due to his arrest. Demonstration programs are ongoing in various districts of the country to protest the killing and demand justice. There have been demands to ban ISKCON from these programs.

Others on the account freeze list include- Karthik Chandra Dey, Anik Pal, Saroj Roy, Sushant Das, Biswa Kumar Singh, Chandidas Bala, Jaydev Karmakar, Lippi Rani Karmakar, Sudhama Gaur Das, Laxman Kanti Das, Priyatosh Das, Rupan Das, Rupan Kumar Dhar, Ashish Purohit, Jagdish Chandra Adhikari and Sajal Das.

BFIU's letter said that all the information and documents of any type of accounts conducted in the name of these persons and all types of business establishments owned by them should be sent to ISKCON. In this case, the account opening form, KYC, transaction statement, all types of loan related information, import and export related information have also been asked to be sent. The prescribed table has been asked to send all the information within the next three days.