DACCA, Bangladesh, Aug. 23 (AP)—A former Bangladesh finance minister and onetime rival of the new President, Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed, was removed today from the home where he was being held under house arrest.

“They are taking me to detention camp,” said the former minister, Tajuddin Ahmed, as he was taken away by about 30 soldiers.

Meanwhile, a search was reported on for an official regarded as a symbol of corruption under the old regime, Ghazi Golam Mustapha, former president of the Bangladesh Red Cross and a long‐time ally of the slain President, Sheik Mujib.

Government sources said Sheik Shahidul Islam, a relative of Sheik Mujib, who escaped the assassination of the Mujib family, was also being sought
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Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed, finance minister under Sheik Mujib until 1974, was put under house arrest Aug. 15 when young army officers assassinated the President and installed Mr. Mushtaque Ahmed, the former commerce minister.

During the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan, Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed was prime minister of a Bangladesh exile regime in Calcutta.

Although Cabinet sources have reported that the new President has persuaded the young officers who took part in the coup to return to their barracks, yesterday most of them were still inside the Bangle Bhavan, the government seat of power and presidential home.

Today Bangladesh expelled 14 Western and Asian reporters, the last foreign correspondents in the country. All outgoing press dispatches were being censored and resident correspondents were not permitted to telephone abroad.