The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has frozen more than Tk 17.39 crore held in 53 bank accounts belonging to former Awami League lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar and his daughter Tahsin Bahar Suchona.
According to the CID’s media wing, the bank accounts were frozen following an order issued by the Senior Special Judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on July 8.
An investigation by the CID’s Financial Crime Unit revealed that the large sums of money were allegedly acquired through fraud, forgery, commission-based dealings, and illegal money transfers via hundi.
They were also suspected of laundering money to various countries.
Legal action will be taken under the Money Laundering Prevention Act in connection with these findings, it added.
