Staff Correspondent:

The Metropolitan Special Judge Court on Tuesday ordered to freeze 14 bank accounts of Suchana Foundation of Saima Wajed 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 Taka 48 crore and 35 lakh.

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.

She has already transferred hundred of crores of Taka abroad through laundering after misappropriating the money from different government projects utilizing the illegal power of her mother, the ACC official added.

The ACC investigator during its primary inquiry came to know that Saima Wajed Putul and other personalities related to Suchana 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.