BFIU stresses vigilance as AACOBB hosts AML conference in Khulna
A day-long Anti-Money Laundering Conference was held in the Khulna region on Saturday, 22 November 2025, organised by the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officers of Banks in Bangladesh (AACOBB) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU).
Md Mofizur Rahman Khan Chowdhury, Executive Director and Acting Head of BFIU, attended as the chief guest. S M Kamaluzzaman Kamal, Director, Bangladesh Bank Khulna Office, and A K M Golam Mahmud, Director, BFIU, were present as special guests.
Additional Directors of BFIU — Mohammad Mokter Hossain, Ruman Ahamed, Asaduzzaman Khan and Md Rokon-Uz-Zaman — participated as resource persons. The programme was presided over by Mohammad Ziaul Hasan Molla, Chairman of AACOBB and DMD & CAMLCO of Bank Asia PLC.
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Members of the AACOBB Executive Committee and around 200 senior bankers from different banks in the Khulna region took part in the conference. Sessions focused on emerging typologies of loan fraud, recent trends in trade-based money laundering, and strategies for prevention and mitigation.
