Court freezes 14 accounts of Suchana Foundation

The Metropolitan Special Judge Court has ordered to freeze 14 bank accounts of Suchana Foundation of Saima Wajed Putul, South East Asian Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and daughter of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, reports BSS.

Md Zakir Hossain Galib, judge of the court, passed the order following a petition submitted

by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday. The balance of these accounts is about Tk 480 million.

The ACC, in its plea, told the court that Saima Wajed Putul was appointed as the regional director of the WHO in connivance with her mother former prime minister Sheikh Hasina defying the rules, principals and ethics of the deed of the WHO.

She has already transferred hundred of crores of Taka abroad through laundering after misappropriating the money from different government projects, cashing in on the power ofher mother illegally, the ACC official added.