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A court in Dhaka has issued an order to freeze 23 beneficiary owner (BO) accounts and 116 bank accounts, as well as to take various immovable and mobile properties that belong to Matiur Rahman, a former National Board of Revenue (NBR) officer, and his family.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Jaglul Hossain passed the order thursday (11 July), allowing a plea of the Investigation Officer (IO) and Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Anwar Hossain.
The IO in his plea said that Matiur has allegedly amassed illegal wealth of hundreds of crores of taka and laundered the money abroad through hundi, under-invoicing and over-invoicing.
"During the probe, we learned that the accused and his family members are trying to hand over properties, and if they manage to do so, all the attempts to seize the illegal wealth and properties will go in vain," the IO said in his plea.
The properties, that have been ordered to be seized, include 26.61 shotangsho land in Savar, 104 shotangsho land in Bhaluka, 958 shotangsho land in the name of Global Shoes in Bhaluka, 875.95 shotangsho land in Gazipur, 38 shotangsho land in the name of Matiur's wife Laila, 126 shotangsho land in the name of son Arnab, 72 shotangsho land in the name of daughter Ipshita in Shibpur, Narshingdi, 166 shotangsho land in the name of Laila in Singra, Natore.
Apart from these, Matiur family's four flats in Sheltech Bithika Apartment Complex in Mirpur have also been ordered to be sized.
On 2 July, the anti-graft body issued separate notices to Matiur and his two wives and children for submitting their wealth statements.
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