The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday asked former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed and National Board of Revenue (NBR) official Matiur Rahman to submit their wealth statements as well as the statements of their family members.
The national anti-graft body sought their wealth statements by issuing separate notices upon them today, ACC Secretary Khorsheda Yasmeen told reporters at its headquarters in Dhaka.
They were asked to submit the wealth statements within 21 days.
Yasmeen said the ACC served notices upon them to know whether the members of Benazir and Matiur have assets beyond their wealth seized by court.
She said the preliminary probe of the ACC has found wealth of Benazir Ahmed, his wife Zeeshan Mirza, eldest daughter Farheen Rishta Binte Benazir and second daughter Tahsin Raisa Binte Benazir beyond their known source of income.
The ACC secretary said there is information too that they have more wealth in the country and abroad and that is why the Commission has served notices upon them seeking their wealth statements.
ACC primary probe finds grafts evidence against Benazir
Meanwhile, the ACC officials said that the have obtained preliminary information indicating that former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed, as well as his wife and daughters, acquired assets beyond their known sources of income.
The commission has also found evidence of more immovable and movable assets, both domestically and internationally, under their names and aliases.
ACC Secretary Khorsheda Yasmin shared this information at a press conference held at the ACC headquarters on Tuesday.
She stated that preliminary information has been obtained about assets acquired beyond known income sources in the names of Benazir Ahmed, his wife Jisaan Mirza, and their two daughters -- Farheen Rishta Binte Benazir and Tahseen Raisa Binte Benazir.
She mentioned that the commission has decided to issue separate asset declaration notices to them under Section 26(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004. Accordingly, asset declaration notices were issued to them on Tuesday.
