The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Monday arrested former social welfare minister and Awami League joint general secretary Dipu Moni in Baridhara DOHS area in the capital.
Dipu Moni was arrested in a murder case filed with Mohammadpur police station, said DMP additional deputy commissioner for media and public relations Obaidur Rahman Shamim.
Chandpur district superintendent of police Saiful Islam said that Dipu Moni was named in a case over vandalising house of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party district unit president 2-3 days ago.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on Monday froze bank accounts of Dipu Moni and her family members and their business entities.
Dipu Moni served as the foreign minister and education minister of the ousted Sheikh Hasina government.
Dipu and her family members are accused of lifting sands from Meghna and Padma rivers illegally, grabbing lands of people and some other corruptions.
On August 13, deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq were arrested at Dhaka River Port at Sadarghat.
Former state minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former deputy speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku and Dhaka University Chhatra League general secretary Tanvir Hasan Saikat were arrested on August 14 after the fall of AL government amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5.
All of the arrestees, except Dipu Moni, are now in police custody.
