Court freezes 141 accounts of Sonali Life chairman, family members
A Dhaka court today (1 June) ordered to freeze 141 bank accounts of former chairman of Sonali Life Insurance Company Limited Mostafa Golam Kuddus, his family members and former CFO of the company.
Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order following a petition submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Deputy Director (DD) Public Relations of the ACC Aktarul Islam said.
The court also ordered to freeze 11 BO (Beneficiary Owner) accounts of the company.
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The court also asked to freeze accounts of the directors of the company. They are- Fauzia Kamrun Tania, Mostafa Kamrus Sobhan, Shafia Sobhan Chowdhury, Tasnia Kamrun Anika, Fazlutunnesa, and Nur-e-Hafza- all are family members of Mostafa Golam Kuddus, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company Mir Rashed Bin Aman.
The ACC in its petition submitted to the court, said the accused persons, in connivance with each other illegally withdrew Tk187.84 crore from the fund of the company.
Later, they shared the money in their personal for misappropriating the fund. The ACC during the investigation came to know that the accused persons are trying to handover and transfer their intangible assets to the accounts of others, the ACC petition said requesting the court to freeze the bank accounts of the company, accounts of all concerned persons for the sake of the investigation.
After hearing of the petition the court issued order to freeze the accounts.
