Court seizes Ziaul Ahsan’s 100 bighas of land

A Dhaka court has ordered to seize three flats, five houses, and 99.93 bighas of land belonging to Ziaul Ahsan, former Director General of National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC), amid an ongoing corruption investigation.

The court also ordered to size Tk1.28 crore in nine banks.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order after Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) filed two separate petitions on Thursday (April 28).

The seized assets include flats in Mirpur DOHS (1,460 and 2,110 sq ft) and Uttara (2,600 sq ft), an eight-story newly built house on ancestral land in Barishal’s Kotwali area, a garden residence and pond-inclusive property in Barishal Sadar, a single-story, 1,270 sq ft older house, an eight-story building on eight decimals of land in Rupganj, Narayanganj.

ACC Deputy Director and public relations officer Aktarul Islam confirmed the matter.