Staff Correspondent:

A court has ordered to freeze nine bank accounts of the former mayor of Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) Tahseen Bahar Shuchona with Tk 1.59 crore in those accounts. The court also ordered to attach a flat owned by her in the capital’s Uttara area.

Dhaka’s first Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ibrahim Miah passed the orders on Monday, allowing a plea filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The anti-graft body in its plea said Shuchona during her tenure as CCC mayor amassed illegal wealth of Tk 3.04 crore and made suspicious transactions of Tk 42.58 crore through 16 bank accounts.

A case has already been lodged against her in this regard. But all the properties acquired by her have not been identified till now.

The ACC said her immovable properties should be attached and bank accounts should be frozen so that she cannot hand over or transfer that elsewhere.