A Dhaka court issued a travel ban on Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury alias Nixon Chowdhury, a former Awami League lawmaker from Faridpur-4 constituency, his wife Tareen Hossain, Syed Abed Ali Jibon (the driver of the ex-PSC chairman) and former Public Administration Ministry secretary Md Khairul Islam on Monday, in a case filed on charges of amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and money laundering.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain passed the order after ACC Assistant Director Mohammad Shihab Salam, who is leading the investigation, submitted an application in this regard.
According to the application, Nixon Chowdhury and his wife were attempting to leave the country anytime. If they go abroad, investigation into the allegations brought against them might be disrupted. So a travel is needed to prevent them leaving the country in this regard.
Earlier on January 9, several cases have been filed by the ACC against the Nixon couple with its Integrated District Office in Dhaka.
According to the case statement, Nixon, also nephew of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, abused his power and accumulated unexplained wealth of Tk 11.23 crore.
Besides Nixon his younger brother, former chief whip, Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury also conducted unusual transactions of Tk 1,402.51 crore through 55 bank accounts under his name and various affiliated organisations.
According to another case statement, Tareen Hossain with her husband's direct assistance acquired Tk 8.05 crore beyond her known sources of income.
She also conducted suspicious transactions worth Tk 1,760.34 crore through 17 bank accounts linked to her and affiliated entities.
The accounts were allegedly used to transfer, shift, and conceal illegal funds, according to the statement of the case filed by ACC Assistant Director Mohammad Shihab Salam.
Meanwhile, ACC Assistant Director Al Amin and SM Mamunur Rashid separately submitted applications against Abed Ali Khairul Islam.
MAL/ ST
