The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze five bank accounts of former state minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroz Chumki and confiscate a flat owned by her in the capital Dhaka in connection with a graft case.
The court also ordered the anti-graft agency to confiscate immoveable properties and freeze moveable properties of Molla Nazrul Islam, former deputy inspector general of police, and it also issued travel ban on former lawmaker Saifuzzaman Shikhor and his wife over corruption allegations.
Judge Md Zakir Hossain passed the orders following separate petitions filed by the ACC, said ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam.
Measuring 3,115 square feet, Meher Afroz鈥檚 flat is located at Banani in the capital and valued at Tk 30.51 lakh. There is Tk 2.32 crore in deposits in her five bank accounts.
In the petition, the ACC said that there was a possibility that these assets could be transferred and so it was necessary to seize her assets and freeze her bank accounts.
On January 21, the ACC filed two separate cases against Meher Afroz, also a member of parliament from the Gazipur-5 constituency, on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk聽5.27 crore beyond her known sources of income.
Besides, the court issued a travel ban on former MP from the Magura-1 constituency Saifuzzaman Shikhor and his wife Sima Rahman over graft allegations.
The ACC in its plea said that a case was filed against Shikhor and Sima on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
It is imperative to issue an order prohibiting the two accused from traveling abroad until the probe into the case is completed for the sake of a fair investigation, the commission said in its petition.
On January 7, a case was filed against Shikhor on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 1.79 crore and suspicious transactions worth Tk 10.98 crore in his banks accounts.
A case was filed against Sima on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk聽1.16 crore.
Meanwhile, the court ordered the ACC to confiscate immoveable properties and freeze moveable properties of Molla Nazrul Islam, former deputy inspector general of police.
Molla Nazrul owns 10.18 kathas of land in the capital鈥檚 Aftab Nagar and two flats at Rampura. He also owns shares worth Tk 55,47,306.
The court also issued a travel ban on Molla Nazrul after a petition was filed in this regard.
On February 26, the ACC filed a case against Molla Nazrul on charges of amassing illegal wealth of Tk聽1,64,30,540.
He was arrested in Rajshahi on February 8 and now in jail in connection with other cases.
The same court also issued a travel ban on Subhash Chandra Saha, former superintendent of police of Faridpur, in a case filed over amassing wealth of Tk聽57,91,997 beyond known sources of income.
On December 4, 2024, the ACC filed the case against Subhash.
