A court has ordered the seizure of 38,800 square feet of land owned by former Gopalganj-1 MP Farook Khan’s brother Aziz Khan, chairman of the Summit Group, and his associates.
The market valuation of the land has been shown as Tk 14.6 million, while the real valuation stands at more than Tk 97 million, the Anti-Corruption Commission said. The piece of land is situated at Dhaka’s Badda.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib issued the order on Tuesday following a petition filed by the ACC.
ACC Deputy Director Alamgir Hossain filed the petition, according to ACC spokesman Aktarul Islam.
The petition said that a joint probe team has been formed to investigate Summit Group and its associates’ accumulation of illegal wealth through bribery, corruption and other means amid complaints of laundering millions.
During the investigation, tip-offs said that it is possible that the fixed assets may be transferred by the accused. Hence, it was necessary to seize the fixed assets, the ACC said.
Earlier on Mar 9, the court ordered the freezing of 191 accounts of the Summit Group. These accounts had Tk 417 million in them.
In a statement, Summit Group said that no land of the group or any of its companies were “confiscated or restrained”.
“Our businesses are going on as usual with full cooperation from our customers e.g. BPDB, BREB and Petrobangla. The land in question belongs to our shareholder and is not connected to Summit’s businesses in any form or manner,” it said.
