Court orders seizure of ex-home minister Kamal's income tax file

A Dhaka court docket on the present time (12 December) ordered the seizure of the income tax file of outdated home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.

Performing Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court Md Ibrahim Miah passed the command, allowing a plea of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

ACC Deputy Director Md Jahangir Alam filed the plea sooner than the court docket, while Public Prosecutor Salauddin Iskander moved the case for the anti-graft body.

On 1 September, the court docket imposed a commute ban on Kamal, his partner Lutful Tahmina Khan, daughter Safia Tasnim Khan, and seven others.

Five cases were filed against 5 other folks, including Kamal, by the ACC on 15 September. The accused were accused of gathering illegal wealth of Tk seventy 9 crore.

9 financial institution accounts of the outdated home minister were frozen after the filing of the cases.