ACC seizes DGHS accountant Afzal's 5-storey building

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) attached on Monday the asset of Afzal Hossain, an accountant of Medical Education Department of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), on corruption charges, reports UNB.

With this, the Asset Recovery Unit of the national anti-corruption watchdog has launched its formal journey.

An ACC team, led by unit director Khandaker Enamul Baser, started the confiscation activities hanging a notice in front of five-storey building, Tamanna Villa, on road-11 of Uttara Sector-13 in compliance with a court order.

According to the ACC, Afzal allegedly accumulated huge wealth, including five houses in the capital and one in Australia.

As part of the drive, the ACC team will also confiscate Afzal's other assets in Khulna, Faridpur and Rajbari.

On January 21 last, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions' Judge Court ordered confiscation of all the moveable and immoveable property of Afzal and his wife Rubina Khanam as well as to freeze all of their bank accounts in a case filed by the ACC.