Awami League’s Rahman, ex-NSI chief Jobaer barred from travelling abroad

A court has issued the decision in response to requests by the Anti-Corruption Commission

A court has issued a travel ban preventing former Awami League fisheries and livestock minister Abdur Rahman and former National Security Intelligence Director General TM Jobaer from leaving the country.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge (Acting) Farzana Yasmin made the decision on Sunday based on petitions from the Anti-Corruption Commission.

ACC Court Inspector Amir Hossain said that ACC Deputy Director Anowarul Haque filed two separate petitions asking for them to be barred from going abroad.

Mahmud Hossain Jahangir represented the ACC at the hearings.

Former Faridpur-1 MP Abdur has been accused of using corruption and irregularities to launder state resources and accumulate wealth in the name of himself and his family members outside their legal sources of income.

Jobaer is accused of accepting large bribes in exchange for jobs, accumulating wealth outside of known sources of income, laundering money abroad and using it to buy a home in London worth 2,945,000 British pounds.

According to the ACC’s petitions, Abdur, Jobaer, and his wife are trying to flee the country while the allegations against them are under investigation and requested a travel ban to prevent them from leaving Bangladesh.