A Dhaka court on Wednesday passed an order to freeze 20 bank accounts of former state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid and his wife Seema Hamid.
Dhaka metropolitan senior special judge Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order based on a plea of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The investigative officer of the case mentioned that there were a total of 2, 10, 97,116 taka in those bank accounts.
The ACC鈥檚 plea said that it filed a case at the integrated district office, Dhaka-1 as the accused had illegally earned Tk 6,98,54,964, which are inconsistent with their income sources and depositing of Tk 12, 77, 86,699 in 20 bank accounts and transaction of Tk 11, 18, 49,818 illegally or in a dubious and abnormal way or to cover up the illegal sources of the income.聽
The plea sought freezing of movable properties of the accused saying that the probe came to know that the accused tried to withdraw money during the investigation.
If no measure is taken against those illegally earned money, there are possibilities of losing the money. So, it is necessary to freeze those illegally earned money to avoid any transaction or withdrawal as per the Clause 14 of Money Laundering Act.