Court orders ACC to freeze 27 bank accounts of Anisul Huq

A Dhaka court today ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 27 bank accounts of former law minister Anisul Huq and his associates in a case filed on charges of amassing wealth beyond known sources of income.

Judge Md Zakir Hossain of the Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court passed the order after ACC Deputy Director Md Jahangir Alam, also the investigation officer, submitted an application in this regard.

ACC Public Prosecutor Md Rezaul Karim moved the application on behalf of the anti-graft body.

In the application, the ACC official said that the accused had acquired and held in his own name and those related to his interests, by abusing his power and dishonestly, assets worth Tk 146,19,70,096 inconsistent with the known source of income from 12 January 2014 to 16 December last year.

Earlier, on January 1, the ACC filed a case against Anisul Huq with its integrated district office in Dhaka.

According to the case statement, Anisul Huq allegedly acquired and retained assets worth Tk 146.19 crore that could not be explained by his known sources of income. He is also accused of conducting transactions amounting to Tk 349.15 crore through 29 bank accounts.

He was shown arrested in this case on January 20.

Anisul Huq was arrested at Sadarghat on August 13 last year when he was trying to flee the country.

He was later shown arrested in different murder and attempted murder cases filed with police stations in the capital.