The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze bank accounts and company shares owned by former commerce minister Tipu Munshi and his wife Irene Malabika Munshi over graft allegations.
聽The court also ordered the ACC to impose a travel ban on retired major general Hamidul Hoque, a former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, over graft allegations.
聽It also asked the ACC to freeze the bank accounts of retired major general Tariq Mohammed Jobaer, a former director general of the National Security Intelligence, over similar allegations.
聽Judge Md Jakir Hossain passed the orders against separate petitions submitted by the ACC in connection with the allegations, said ACC deputy director (public relations) Aktarul Islam.
聽The court ordered the ACC to freeze 12 bank accounts and the shares of 18 companies and to seize two vehicles owned by Tipu Munshi and his wife.
聽Another order was issued to attach a plot in Uttara, a three-storey building and 91 decimals of the lands in Pirgachha in Rangpur, all owned by Tipu Munshi, and his wife鈥檚 land at Gulshan in the capital Dhaka.
聽The ACC in a petition stated that Tipu Munshi misused his power and acquired and occupied movable and immovable assets worth about Tk 6 crore, while suspicious transactions worth Tk 32.18 crore have been found in his 12 bank accounts.
聽His wife Irene Malabika Munshi also acquired movable and immovable assets worth Tk 4.25 crore by abusing power, the petition said.
聽Tipu Munshi was arrested by the police at Gulshan on August 29. He is currently in jail in connection with a number of criminal cases.
聽Meanwhile, the court slapped a travel ban on former DGFI chief retired聽 major general聽 Hamidul Haque and his wife Nusrat Jahan Mukta over graft allegations.
The ACC, in its plea, said that it is probing allegations against Hamidul and his wife of embezzling government funds by misusing power and amassing illegal wealth in their names, as well as in the names of their family members.
鈥業n the circumstances, the two accused may try to flee the country to evade justice, and a travel ban should be imposed on them immediately,鈥� it added.
聽The court also ordered the ACC to freeze four bank accounts of former NSI chief retired major general Tariq Mohammed Jobaer and one account of his wife Fahmina Masud over graft allegations.
聽The ACC also said that it is probing allegations against Jobaer of taking money from different people, promising them government jobs, amassing huge illegal wealth by misusing his power, laundering money and buying a house in London with illegal money.