The Anti-Corruption Commission has confiscated a five-storey residential building, owned by an administrative officer of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and his wife, in Dhaka for amassing huge wealth illegally.
The couple are Abzal Hossain, an administrative officer of Institute of Health Technology, and his wife, Rubina Khanam, a stenographer of the Medical Education and Health Manpower Development project, also under the DGHS. Their combined salary is around Tk 44,000 per month.
A 15-member team led by ACC Deputy Director Md Toufiqul Islam confiscated their house, Tamanna Villa, at Road No. 11 under Sector No. 13 in the city’s Uttara Model Town on Monday morning.
Law enforcers assisted the team during the raid.
The house, on the fifth floor of which Abzal used to live on, was found under lock and key during the raid.
No-one could say about his whereabouts.
The caretaker of the house, Mamun Hossain, said Abzal and his family have left this house since a notice was issued to them on January 21.
A total of eight families live as tenants at this house.
Asked about this, ACC official Toufiqul said they will decide about this later.
He added that they will continue the rouse in the Uattara area all over this day.
Earlier on January 21, a Dhaka court ordered the attachment of the couple’s bank accounts and confiscation of the moveable and immoveable goods owned by them.
In the wake of reports against Abzal over acquiring huge wealth illegally, the DGHS suspended him on January 14.
Meanwhile, the ACC started its enquiry about this.
The anti-graft body also issued a notice to Abzal's wife Rubina, to appear before it on January 17 as there were similar allegations against her, too.
Rubina is the proprietor of Rahman Trade International, a contracting firm that used to supply surgical equipment to government hospitals and institutions.
The ACC finds that Abzal bought a house in Sydney, Australia for more than US$ 200,000, and has four five-storey buildings and a plot in Uttara, an SUV and several plots and houses in different districts, including Dhaka and Faridpur.
The couple’s income tax papers showed that they have Tk 120 million worth of wealth.
