Dhaka, April 10 -- A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered to freeze 16 bank accounts of former food minister Advocate Kamrul Islam following a petition submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Senior Special Judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order in this regard, reports BSS.

Deputy Director of the public relations department of the ACC Aktarul Islam told reporters.

The ACC, in its petition, told the court that huge suspicious transactions were made through these accounts with different commercial banks and financial institutions.

The anti-graft body came to know that the money and moveable properties belonging to Kamrul Islam may handover, transfer or sale to others. As a result, th...