After a couple of court orders, former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed has no alternatives left but to face the prison system. According to the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012, and its regulations, any courtroom order to seize someone’s assets is powerful at once, stopping Benazir from shifting or turning in the residences in query. Consequently, he can’t behavior any bank transactions without a brand new court order.
A Dhaka court first ordered the confiscation of all movable and immovable homes belonging to Benazir on May 23 in reaction to corruption allegations. This order blanketed the freezing of 33 bank money owed and the attachment of homes beneath 83 deeds.
In the trendy listening to on Sunday, the identical court docket ordered the seizure of diverse property documents, apartments, and partial shares in an organization underneath the names of Benazir, his spouse Zeeshan Mirza, and their daughters Farheen Rishta Binte Benazir and Tahsin Raisa Binte Benazir.
The allegations in opposition to Benazir surfaced on March 31 whilst a national daily suggested that he had collected illegal wealth. Subsequent media reports supported these claims, alleging that Benazir owned highly-priced houses and significant land in Dhaka’s elite regions. His daughters reportedly hold two hundred,000 stocks in Best Holdings Limited and the 5-megastar in Le Meridien. Additionally, their duplex homes unfold over forty kathas in Purbachal, valued at around Tk45 crore, and some other 10 bighas of land worth Tk22 crore inside the equal region. In evaluation, Benazir’s general revenue and allowances in the course of his 34 years and seven months as a provider amounted to Tk1, eighty-four,89,2 hundred.
A writ was filed with the High Court on April 22 in search of an investigation into the alleged corruption of Benazir. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman, secretary, and 4 others were named as defendants in the writ. Following this, the ACC shaped a committee on April 18 to research the allegations against Benazir and his circle of relatives, comprising Deputy Director Hafizul Islam and assistant administrators Neamul Hasan and Joynal Abedin.
On April 20, Benazir publicly denied the allegations in a Facebook video message, calling them false and defamatory. He asserted that he have been residing a quiet existence considering that retiring nearly two years in the past and accused sure groups on social media of defaming him with false information.
ACC Public Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir referred to that at the same time as Benazir’s movable property have been attached and his immovable property frozen, no bodily seizure had happened yet. He emphasised that the May 23 court order was right away powerful and that any disobedience could result in contempt of court costs towards Benazir.
As of Sunday evening, Benazir had not commented at the courtroom orders in spite of previously contesting the media reviews on April 20. His lawyer, Shah Monjurul Hoque, noted that that they had no longer yet made a decision on felony measures but could determine within an afternoon or about approaching the High Court.