Court orders to seize assets of Shakib Al Hasan

A court has ordered to seize assets of cricketer and former MP from Magura-2 constituency Shakib Al Hasan's in a cheque fraud case. Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman issued the order on Monday (March 24).

The same court issued an arrest warrant against him on January 19. However, the plaintiff filed an application for attachment of assets as the police were unable to arrest him. The court ordered the attachment in light of that application.

Earlier, on December 15, Shahibur Rahman filed the case as the plaintiff on behalf of IFIC Bank. The court recorded the plaintiff's statement and ordered Shakib and four others to appear in court on January 18.

The other accused in the case are Shakib Al Hasan Agro Farm Limited MD Gazi Shahgir Hossain, the company's directors Imdadul Haque and Malaika Begum.

According to the case, the Agro Farm owned by the accused Shakib took loans from the Banani branch of IFIC Bank at various times for business purposes. Against that, the company owned by Shakib issued two checks. Then, when the check was withdrawn, it was dishonored due to insufficient funds. The amount of money in the two checks was about 41.5 million taka.