Court orders to freeze 14 accounts of Putul's Shuchona Foundation
The Metropolitan Special Judge Court today ordered to freeze 14 bank accounts of Shuchona Foundation of Saima Wazed Putul, South East Asian regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) and daughter of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Md Zakir Hossain Galib, judge of the court, passed the order following a petition submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The balance of these accounts is Tk48.35 crore.
The ACC, in its application, told the court that Saima Wajed Putul was appointed as the regional director of the WHO in connivance with her mother former prime minister Sheikh Hasina defying the rules, principals and ethics of the deed of the WHO.
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She has already transferred hundreds of crores of taka abroad through laundering after misappropriating the money from different government projects utilising her mother's influence, the ACC official added.
The ACC investigator during its primary inquiry came to know that Saima Wazed Putul and other personalities related to Shuchona Foundation are trying to handover and transfer the moveable properties of the foundation.
It would be very difficult for the investigators to recover the properties if they can transfer or handover it, the official said, adding that is why those bank accounts should be frozen.
