The Ministry of Commerce has stopped transferring or
withdrawing of Jubilee Bank shares of two self-proclaimed killers of
Bangabandhu – Col (retd) Syed Farooq Rahman and Col (dismissed) Khandaker Abdur
Rashid – in a bid to confiscate all their movable and immovable assets.
The ministry has also suspended any further
recording of the returns of the convicted killers’ shares in the Directorate of
the Registrar of Joint Stock of Companies and Firms.
In a letter to the Bank and Financial Institutions
Division signed by its Deputy Secretary SM Masudur Rahman, the ministry on
November 17 sought opinion from the Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry
regarding the confiscation of the shares.
Earlier, the Directorate General of Forces
Intelligence (DGFI), the military intelligence agency, had sent a letter to the
division regarding the issue.
According to the DGFI letter, Farooq and Rashid hold
85,000 shares of the bank, each share worth Tk25.
Bangabandhu murder case convicts Farooq and Bazlul
Huda were hanged on January 27, 2010; Col (dismissed) Rashid has been a
fugitive for the past 30 years.
Recently, parliament unanimously adopted a
resolution to confiscate all movable and immovable assets of the convicted
killers of Bangabandhu and war criminals.
Assets of Farooq and Bazlul would be confiscated
through a law, said Law Minister Anisul Huq in parliament.
But no law was required to confiscate assets of the
absconding killers, he added.
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