The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze four bank accounts and two properties of former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed in the USA and Malaysia.
The court also imposed a travel ban on former Southeast Bank PLC chairman Alamgir Kabir and Customs Enforcement and Rebate Directorate鈥檚 additional director general Tajul Islam and his wife Khodeja Khatun.
Judge Md Jakir Hossain of the court, responding to a petition submitted by ACC deputy director Hafizul Islam, allowed the ACC to freeze four bank accounts and two properties of Benazir in the USA and Malaysia.
According to the court order, the court allowed ACC to seize a property worth 2,15,000 US dollars (converted residence) owned by Benazir Ahmed and Hasna M Chowdhury on Lake Avenue at Buffalo in New York and another property worth 2,15,000 US dollars (commercial) on Lake Street, Hamburg in New York.
The court also asked the ACC to freeze two accounts of Benazir at Standard Chartered Bank in the USA and two bank accounts at CIMB Islamic Bank in Malaysia, said ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam.
On December 15, 2024, the ACC filed four cases against Benazir Ahmed, his wife Jissan Mirza and their daughters Farheen Rishta Binte Benazir and Tahseen Raisa Binte Benazir on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 74 crore.
In February, the ACC filed a case against Benazir, his wife and the two daughters on charges of laundering of Tk 11.34 crore.
Earlier, a Dhaka court also ordered the seizure of two flats in Dubai and the freezing of two bank accounts under Jissan鈥檚 name.
Benazir served as the inspector general of police between April 15, 2020, and September 30, 2022 during the Awami League regime.
The same court on Monday imposed a travel ban on a former chairman of Southeast Bank PLC, Alamgir Kabir, responding to a petition filed by the ACC.
The anti-graft body in its plea against Alamgir said that the commission was probing allegations of embezzling several hundred crores of money from the bank through corruption and nepotism and he might try to flee the country to evade justice.
The court also issued travel ban on the Customs Enforcement and Rebate Directorate additional DG, Tajul Islam, and his wife Khodeja Khatun.
ACC in its plea said that the commission led by its deputy assistant director Anisur Rahman was conducting an inquiry into allegations of amassing illegal wealth against Tajul and his wife Khodeja.
