Jatiya Party (JP-Manju) Chairman and former minister Anwar Hossain Manju has been arrested on Monday afternoon.
The law-enforcement agencies detained him from a house of Dhanmondi in the capital.
Earlier on August 28, the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of the Bangladesh Bank asked all banks to freeze Anwar Hossain Manju's accounts.
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