Muktdesh Desk: The court has ordered the freezing of 12 bank accounts of former member of parliament (MP) of Dhaka-13 constituency Sadeq Khan. The accounts contain Tk 2 crore 92 lakh 41 thousand 926.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz issued the order on Monday (November 10).
Investigating officer of the case, Assistant Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), AKM Mortuza Ali Sagar, applied for the freezing of these bank accounts.
The application states that the ACC has filed a case against Sadeq Khan for amassing assets worth 73 million 20 thousand 664 taka incongruous with the known income earned by embezzling government funds through various irregularities and corruption, including land grabbing, and keeping them in his possession, and for making suspicious and unusual transactions of 466 million 47 lakh 62 thousand 190 taka in 29 bank accounts of his own and the institutions owned by him through abuse of power and criminal misconduct while he was a member of parliament.
The case is currently under investigation. During the investigation, information was obtained about the acquisition of these movable assets in the name of Sadeq Khan. During the investigation, reliable sources learned that there is a possibility that the movable assets acquired in the name of Sadeq Khan may have been transferred/transferred or changed/transferred in any other way and gone abroad to hide. For the sake of investigating the case, it is necessary to freeze the movable assets acquired in the name of Sadeq