A director general of the Anti-Corruption Commission said on Wednesday that the media reports stating the alleged accumulation of illegal wealth by former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman had to come to their attention, but no decision had yet been made to scrutinise them.
The ACC director official said they were collecting newspaper reports about the allegations against Asaduzzaman Mia and would take a decision regarding investigating those allegations after necessary scrutiny.
According to media reports, information about聽 multiple flats, plots, houses, and land owned by Asaduzzaman Mia and his family in the capital has been found.
Besides, Asaduzzaman Mia鈥檚 family took advantage of legalising undisclosed money by investing in the real estate sector and hid information to get a Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha plot.
An official of the National Board of Revenue confirmed to 抖阴精品 on Wednesday that Asaduzzaman Mia鈥檚 daughter Ayesha Siddika legalised Tk 1.72 crore by purchasing a flat in 2020.
A Rajuk official confirmed that his wife, Afroza Zaman, got a 7-katha plot under a special provision by violating the rule.
The official of the city development body said that a person who has a plot in the Rajuk area is not eligible to get a plot from Rajuk, but Afroza Zaman hid the information.
According to the official, she has several flats and plots in Dhaka.
The information came to the forefront at a time when several media outlets reported the presence of Asaduzzaman鈥檚 huge properties in and around Dhaka, something that independent observers said was impossible to obtain through legal income for a police officer.
The allegation of Asaduzzaman鈥檚 accumulation of illegal wealth came at a time when his former boss and retired inspector general of police, Benazir Ahmed, had been facing an investigation by the ACC.
Media reports said that there is a house and two flats in Dhaka in the name of the wife of the former Dhaka police chief, and a flat in the name of his daughter.
Apart from this, there are 67 decimals of land in the name of his wife and children in Dhaka, Gazipur, and Narayanganj.
His family members have another 166 decimals of land in these three districts.
Apart from this, there is a flat in the name of Asaduzzaman鈥檚 daughter in Siddheshwari.
A Bangla tabloid daily published a report on the immovable assets of Asaduzzaman Mia and his family members on Sunday.
Between 2017 and 2019, a total of 106 decimals of land were bought in the name of Asaduzzaman鈥檚 wife, Afroza Zaman, in Chandkhola mauza, Kaliganj, Gazipur.
Apart from this, in 2018, 28 decimals of land were bought in the name of Afroza in the Kayamsail-Kayetpara mauza of Rupganj, Narayanganj.
In the same year, another 32 decimals of land were bought in her name in the same mauza.
According to the report, Asaduzzaman Mia has a 10-khata plot in Rajuk鈥檚 Purbachal project.
The family has 21 khata of land in Aftabnagar of the capital, while in the name of his son, there is a residential building in the Nikunja-1 area of the capital.
He also bought a flat in the Savar area.
Asaduzzaman Mia served as DMP commissioner from 2015 to 2019.
Later, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Security Cell by the government.
His contract expires in September 2022.
On Wednesday, in a video message, Asaduzzaman Mia dismissed all the allegations raised against him.
鈥業 note with great concern that two media outlets have published reports that me and my wife fled abroad after allegations were made against me, which are false, fabricated, baseless, and intentional. Mainly for heart disease treatment, I came out of the country for treatment at the doctor鈥檚 pre-fixed time. After the treatment, I will return to the country on June 22,鈥� he said.
He also said that the news published against him in a few media outlets alleging illegal acquisition of wealth was false, fabricated, exaggerated, and purposeful.
鈥楴either I nor my family have any assets beyond my declared income and inconsistent with my declared income,鈥� he said.
