BFIU moves to freeze 14,000 Bangladesh accounts over suspected gambling links
Bangladesh’s Financial Intelligence Unit has begun freezing about 14,000 mobile financial service accounts suspected of links to online gambling and digital hundi, according to a senior BFIU official. The official said the action follows the freezing of 10,000 accounts in the previous month; Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury told parliament that about 55,000 accounts had been suspended or frozen this year.
Payment providers and gambling operators face intensified enforcement against accounts suspected of facilitating online gambling.