The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to attach 362.43 acres of land, seven flats and a couple of houses in Dhaka owned by former Jashore-3 lawmaker and Gemcon Group owner Kazi Nabil Ahmed and his family members.
The court also asked the ACC to seized three flats, four houses, and about 100 bighas of land owned by dismissed Major General Ziaul Ahsan in connection with graft allegations.
Judge Md Jakir Hossain of the court passed the orders, allowing separate petitions submitted by the ACC, said ACC鈥檚 deputy director for public relations Akhtarul Islam.
Apart from the 362.43 acres of land, seven flats and a couple of houses, the court also ordered freezing of shares of worth $61.39 lakh of Kazi Anis Ahmed that he invested in the United States.
ACC officials said that Kazi Anis, also a director of Gemcon Group, invested this money in AGNETA LLC without obtaining permission from the Bangladesh Bank.
The ACC is conducting an inquiry against Kazi Nabil Ahmed and his family members over allegations of laundering money abroad.
The court asked the ACC to seize three flats, four houses, and 100 bighas of land owned by dismissed Major General Ziaul Ahsan, also former director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre.
In addition, nine of his bank accounts where current balance is Tk聽1.28 crore have been frozen following a petition by the ACC.
Of the assets, two flats are at Mirpur DOHS, measuring 1,460 and 2,110 square feet respectively, one 2,600-square-feet flat at Uttara, an eight-story house on ancestral land in Barisal, a garden house with a pond in the same district, a one-story old house measuring 1,270 square feet, an eight-story building constructed on eight decimals of land at Rupganj in Narayanganj.
The petition, submitted by ACC deputy director Rezaul Karim, claimed that Ziaul Ahsan was planning to sell off the immovable assets and transfer funds from his accounts.
To ensure a fair and unhindered investigation, the commission sought the court鈥檚 order to freeze his bank accounts and seize the assets.
On January 23, the ACC filed a case against Ziaul Ahsan and his wife Nusrat Jahan, accusing them of amassing illegal wealth worth approximately Tk聽40.87 crore and conducting suspicious financial transactions totalling Tk聽342 crore.
Ziaul Ahsan was arrested in the early hours of August 15, 2024 from the Khilkhet area in Dhaka. He has since been placed under remand in connection with multiple cases, including one related to crimes against humanity. He remains in custody.
