Bank accounts of former longtime Satkhira-3 MP AFM Ruhal Haque, family frozen

The Bangladesh Monetary Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has ordered banks to freeze all accounts of dilapidated lawmaker for Satkhira-3, AFM Ruhal Haque, his wife Ila Haque, son Ziaul Haque and daughter Mehzabin Haque.

The anti-money laundering agency, in a letter sent to all banks this day (3 October), ordered the monetary institutions to freeze the accounts for the next 30 working days.

Ruhal served as a longtime MP for the Satkhira-3 constituency which encompasses Assasuni and Debhata upazilas and the four northernmost union parishads of Kaliganj Upazila: Bhara Simla, Champaphul, Nalta, and Tarali of the district.

Valid by draw of the Awami League regime, he changed into elected from the constituency in all four Jatiya Sangsad polls  – in 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024 – in the rest 17 years

He also served as the minister of properly being and family welfare at some stage in 2009–2014.