A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate all moveable and immoveable assets of former NBR official Matiur Rahman and his family members on charges of corruption.
Mohammad Ash-Shams Joglul Hossain, judge of the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court in Dhaka, passed the order after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Md Anowar Hossain, also the enquiry officer, applied to the court in this regard.
ACC Public Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir confirmed the court order to the FE.
In the application, the ACC official said Matiur and his family members were attempting to transfer the properties and launder the money. So, an order was needed to prevent them from making such attempts.
The immoveable properties include 2,365 decimals of land in Savar of Dhaka, Mymensingh's Bhaluka, Gazipur, Singra of Natore and Shibpur of Narsingdi and four flats (7,248 square feet) in Mirpur of Dhaka.
The moveable properties are Tk 134.36 million deposited in 116 bank accounts in the country.
However, the court also ordered freezing of all the 116 bank accounts.
Matiur and his family members also opened 23 beneficiary owner's (BO) accounts of different brokerage houses.
Matiur's family members facing the graft charges are his wife Laila Kaniz Lucky, also chairman of Raipura upazila parishad in Narsingdi, son Ahmed Toufiqur Rahman Arnab and daughter Farzana Rahman Ipshita, and Matiur's second wife Shammi Akhter.
On June 24, the same court issued a ban on travel of Matiur, Laila and Arnab.
Earlier, the ACC formed a three-member committee to enquire into the allegations against them of amassing huge wealth through illegal means.
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