A Dhaka court has ordered the freezing of shares held in five Beneficiary Owners (BO) accounts belonging to Syed Abed Ali, the alleged mastermind of the Public Service Commission (PSC) question leak scandal and a former driver of the PSC, along with his associates.
According to the court order, the frozen accounts include one BO account in the name of Abed Ali, two accounts under his associate Abu Sulaiman Md. Sohel, one in the name of Jahangir Alam, and another under Md. Mahbubur Rahman.
On Sunday (April 5), Judge Md. Sabbir Foyez of the Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court issued the order following an application filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The information was confirmed by the court’s bench assistant Md. Riaz Hossain.
According to the CID application, the accused are members of an organized question-leaking syndicate allegedly led by Abed Ali. The syndicate is accused of leaking recruitment examination questions over a long period, from 2003 to 2024, and earning large amounts of illegal money through the scheme.
Interrogation of the accused and preliminary investigations revealed that the proceeds from the question leaks were used to acquire substantial movable and immovable assets. To protect these suspected illicit assets and ensure an effective investigation, the CID sought freezing of the five BO accounts under Section 14(1) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012, which the court subsequently approved.
