Court issues order to freeze 9 bank accounts of ex-CCC mayor

A Dhaka court on Monday issued order to freeze nine bank accounts of former mayor of Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) Tahseen Bahar Shuchona with Taka 1.59 crore in those accounts. The court also ordered to attach a flat owned by her in the capital's Uttara area.

Dhaka first Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ibrahim Miah passed the orders, allowing a plea filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The anti-graft body in its plea said Shuchona during her tenure as CCC mayor amassed illegal wealth of Taka 3.04 crore and made suspicious transactions of Taka 42.58 crore through 16 bank accounts. A case has already been lodged against her in this regard. But all the properties acquired by her have not been identified till now. The ACC said her immovable properties should be attached and bank accounts should be frozen, so that she cannot hand over or transfer that elsewhere.