A court in Dhaka has ordered to freeze BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr. Zubaida Rahman’s three accounts of a bank in United Kingdom (UK).
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge K M Imrul Kayes delivered the order on Thursday. The court order was delivered following an appeal filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
The ACC plea said, there are two personal accounts of Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman in the Santander UK Bank. Besides there is another account of White and Blue Consultant Limited and Tarique Rahman is the director of the firm.
The ACC permission plea said, there is an investigation going on against Tarique Rahman over money laundering from the country and investing money abroad. According to the investigation there was a transaction of 59 thousand 341.93 pound to the accounts of Tarique and Zubaida from an account of a firm in the same bank. The transaction is halted by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of UK. They are trying to transfer or convert the money. If measures are not taken timely then the money could be driven to any other source.
ACC Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir said, the order of the permission case will be sent to Attorney General’s office in UK through home ministry. There the Attorney General’s office will activate the order by sending it to the concerned bank.
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