A Dhaka court has ordered the seizure and freezing of movable and immovable sources positioned in a distant places country belonging to Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, the chairman of Bashundhara Community, and 7 of his relatives.
Senior Particular Metropolitan Settle Mohammad Zakir Hossain issued the portray on 21 November following a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), studies Prothom Alo.
The seven others are Sobhan’s wife Afroza Begum, their three sons Sayem Sobhan Anvir, Safiat Sobhan, and Safwan Sobhan, and their three daughters-in-regulations Sabrina Sobhan, Sonia Ferdousi Sobhan, and Yasha Sobhan.
The portray, issued underneath the Cash Laundering Prevention Act 2012, will stay in quit till further search, in step with media studies.
ACC has educated the court about investments, asset purchases, and bank transactions amounting to virtually Tk143 crore by these eight other folks.
The anti-graft watchdog moreover offered data concerning the acquisition of sources, investments, and bank accounts of the relatives in a distant places country.
On the opposite hand, the monetary price of those distant places sources used to be no longer mentioned within the ACC’s fable, studies Prothom Alo.
“An portray of the court must be shown to the linked authorities of the linked worldwide locations to bring motivate money laundered in a distant places country,” mentioned ACC Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam.
He added that the Dhaka court’s portray will abet in making improvements to the laundered money.
The Prothom-Alo fable mentioned the court has directed that copies of the portray for the seizure of Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his relatives’ sources be sent to the linked authorities in Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the UAE, Slovakia, Cyprus, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the British Virgin Islands.
The same copies will moreover be offered to the Ministry of Residence Affairs, the ACC, and the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU).
ACC mentioned none of Sobhan’s relatives bought permission from the Bangladesh Financial institution to ship money in a distant places country.
The rate moreover educated the court that the eight individuals of the family personal invested in 19 firms in various worldwide locations.
On 21 October, a Dhaka court issued a trot back and forth ban on Sobhan and 7 individuals of his family over corruption allegations. Sooner than that, BFIU on October 6 ordered banks to freeze all accounts of all eight.
