The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday imposed a travel ban on 15 people, including former Awami League lawmaker and national cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, over allegations of corruption, embezzlement, illegal investment in the stock market, and amassing illegal wealth.
The court鈥檚 judge, Md Jakir Hossain, issued the order following a petition filed by Anti-Corruption Commission assistant director Sazzad Hossain, said ACC deputy director for public relations Akterul Islam.
However, Shakib Al Hasan is now staying abroad.
According to the ACC鈥檚 petition, the ACC is conducting an inquiry into allegations of embezzling a huge amount of money and investing hundreds of crores of taka in the stock market through illegal means by the individuals.
The other people who are barred from leaving the country are Department of Cooperatives鈥� deputy registrar Md Abul Khayer Hiru, Kazi Sadia Hasan, Abul Kalam Madbor, Kanika Afroze, Mohammad Bashar, Sajed Madbor, Aleya Begum, Kazi Fuad Hasan, Kazi Farid Hasan, Shirin Akhter, Javed A Matin, Md Zahed Kamal, Md Humayun Kabir and Tanvir Nizam.
The ACC stated that allowing these people to leave the country at this stage could hamper the inquiry against the graft suspects.
Shakib was elected to the 12th parliament as a lawmaker from the Magura-2 constituency, but the parliament was dissolved after the Awami League government was ousted on August 5, 2024, amid a student-led mass uprising.
According to ACC officials, the complaint accuses Shakib of multiple illegal activities, including involvement in share market scams, gambling operations, connections with gold smuggling rackets, fraud with crab traders and concealment of assets in his affidavit submitted to the Election Commission.
The cricketer is involved in various business ventures, but the true extent of his assets remains unclear, they said.
Shakib is also facing several criminal cases, one on charges of murder of a garment worker at Adabar in the capital Dhaka during the July-August 2024 mass uprising.
