The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Saturday imposed a travel ban on Moazzem Hossain, former assistant private secretary to youth and sports adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, and blocked his national identity card on allegations of corruption.
Judge Md Jakir Hossain passed the order following a petition submitted by the ACC, said ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam.
Besides, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against Toufika Karim, a close associate of former law minister Anisul Huq on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 56.61 crore.
Earlier, on May 22, an ACC team led by its deputy assistant director Minu Aktar Sumy interrogated Moazzem Hossain over the graft charges.
On May 4, the ACC launched an inquiry into corruption allegations against a Moazzem Hossain who resigned from his post on April 21 amid the graft allegations.
According to the allegations, Moazzem amassed a huge amount of money for recruitments and transfers, tender distribution, and the rehabilitation of engineers who were complicit in the autocratic Awami League rule at various levels before the August 5, 2024 political changeover.
It was alleged that Moazzem, a leader of the anti-discrimination movement that eventually ousted the AL regime, lobbied for transfer and promotion of almost all grades of officials, down from chief engineer and additional chief engineer to upazila engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department.
Meanwhile, the ACC also found suspicious transactions of Tk 374.51 crore in Toufika Karim鈥檚 88 bank accounts, said ACC director general (prevention) Md Akhtar Hossain.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court also issued a travel ban on National Bank鈥檚 former board director Monowara Sikder and 13 others following a petition filed by the ACC.
Monowara Sikder is wife of Sikder group founder Zainul Haque Sikder.
The individuals facing travel bans include Mohammad Sharifuzzaman Khan, managing director of Broadway Real Estate Ltd, and its chairman Md Ismail, directors Mohammad Fazle Rabbi and Tawsif Saifullah, former deputy managing director Syed Rois Uddin; Managing director of Desh Television Arif Hasan, NBL former Company secretary ASM Bulbul, former additional managing directors MA Wadud and Chowdhury Mostaq Ahmed, former director Parveen Haque Sikder, Director Moazzem Hossain, former directors Khalilur Rahman and Mabrur Hossain and former sub-registrar Md Rajob Ali.
According to the ACC petition, the individuals were allegedly involved in embezzling Tk 490 crore through fraudulent loans from National Bank with forged documents.
The same court on Saturday also ordered the ACC to freeze 38 bank accounts of former chief of the air force Air Chief Marshal Sheikh Abdul Hannan, his wife Tahmida Begum, and son Sheikh Labir Hannan in connection with graft charges.