The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday issued a travel ban on former minister for environment, forest and climate change Saber Hossain Chowdhury and his family members over allegations of corruption.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on the day filed two separate cases against former Jatiya Sangsad whip Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapon and his wife Mehbuba Alam on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam said that Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court judge Md Jakir Hossain issued the travel ban on Saber and his family members following a petition submitted by ACC deputy director Md Saiduzzaman.
The other family members are Saber鈥檚 wife Rehana Chowdhury, sons Hamdan Hossain Chowdhury and Araj Alam Chowdhury, and daughters Raimah Chowdhury and Alisha Babar Chowdhury.
The anti-graft agency in its petition stated that an inquiry was going on against Saber over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through abusing power.
Saber, also a former Awami League lawmaker from the Dhaka-9 constituency, and his family members have allegedly a huge amount of illegal assets in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, it said.
Sabar and his family members were attempting to flee the country, the petition said, adding that if they fled, the inquiry into the allegations brought against them might be hampered and so, an order was needed to prevent them from doing so.
The ACC filed the cases against Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapon and his wife Mehbuba Alam on charges of amassing illegal wealth with the commission鈥檚 integrated district office in Dhaka-1.
According to the cases, Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapon, former Awami league lawmaker from the Joypurhat-2 constituency and former whip of the Jatiya Sangsad, allegedly amassed illegal assets worth about Tk 1.26 crore.
Besides, he made unusual and suspicious transactions of Tk聽653.16 crore through 28 bank accounts in his own name, jointly and other establishments.
Mehbuba Alam allegedly amassed wealth worth about Tk聽2.22 crore beyond known sources of income.
Judge Md Jakir Hossain also issued a travel ban on 10 people over allegations of taking extra money violating government-set cost during sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia.
The 10 people are former lawmaker and Snigdha Overseas Ltd owner Nizam Uddin Hazari and its shareholders Nurjahan Begum, Sheikh Abdullah, M Amirul Islam, Unique Eastern (Pvt) Ltd managing director Moh Noor Ali, and its shareholders former secretary Khondaker Showkat Hossain and Nasir Uddin Ahmed, Catharsis International managing director Mohammed Ruhul Amin, BM Travels Ltd chairman Md Shafiqul Islam, and BNS Oversees Ltd managing director Estiak Ahmed Shaikat.
ACC assistant director Abul Kalam Azad in a petition told the court that an inquiry was going on against the 10 people over allegations of taking additional money while sending workers to Malaysia and laundering money abroad.
The 10 people were attempting to flee the country, said the petition, adding that if they fled, the inquiry into the allegations brought against them might be hampered and so, an order was needed to prevent them from doing so.
The court also imposed a travel ban on former state minister of ousted Awami League government Meher Afroze Chumki and her husband Mohammad Masudur Rahman over allegations of corruption.
ACC assistant director Al Amin in his petition told the court that the commission filed a case against the couple on charges of amassing illegal wealth.