Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court has ordered to freeze 617 bank accounts and confiscate 92 deeds of immovable properties of independent lawmaker of Luxmipur-2 constituency Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Papul and three of his family members.
Senior Special Judge’s Court Judge KM Emrul Kayesh passed the order on Sunday.
The other three accused are Papul’s wife Selina Islam, MP, daughter Wafa Islam and sister-in-law Jesmine Prodhan.
Besides, the same court granted bail to the Papul’s wife and his daughter. The court issued the bail after Papul’s wife Selina Islam, a reserved-seat lawmaker, and their daughter Kazi Wafa Islam surrendered to the court and sought bail.
The High Court on December 22 gave a deadline to Selina and Wafa till December 28 to surrender before the lower court to seek bail in the money laundering case.
On December 10, 2020, the High Court asked Selina and her daughter to surrender before the Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court within 10-day seeking bail.
The Anti-Corruption Commission, on November 11, filed the case against Papul, his wife, daughter and sister-in-law for laundering Tk 148 crore.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on December 22 filed a money laundering case against Papul, who is now in a jail in Kuwait after his arrest, and three of his family members.
It was mentioned in the case that Papul siphoned off Tk 38 crore 22 lakh 40 thousand from the country.
At night on June 7 last, Papul was arrested by Kuwait police from Mushriq area on an allegation of his involvement in human trafficking.
Following the arrest, the Kuwaiti government froze Shahid’s bank account. He holds about five million Kuwaiti dinars or Tk 1.38 billion in those accounts.
