A special court has ordered the authorities concerned to freeze movable properties of Afroza Abbas, president of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal, a wing of the BNP.

The properties are worth Tk 20.76 crore.

The Special Judge's Court passed the order following a plea by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

In its petition, the ACC on January 20 said Afroza, the wife of BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, owned 139,255 shares of the Dhaka Bank and the Dhaka Telephone Company and had savings of about Tk 6.99 lakh with the same bank.

The ACC found this during an investigation in a case filed against her with Shahjahanpur police on January 7.

The commission said Afroza could not show the legal sources against the investment and savings in her name.

In her income tax file, she said she is a handicraft businesswoman. But in her passport, she mentioned herself as a housewife.

The ACC said they had learned that the accused was trying to transfer the money and it would hamper the merit of the case if she became successful.

According to the case statement, Afroza got the wealth from her husband, who earned it 'illegally'.

The ACC has meanwhile approved charge-sheets in two separate cases filed against former BNP leader Mosaddek Ali Falu.

The commission filed two separate cases against Falu on May 15, 2017 and August 10, 2017, for amassing wealth beyond the known sources of income.

In the investigation, ACC found that Falu failed to produce valid documents to prove the sources of Tk 3.93 crore.

In the other case, Falu again failed to produce documents against Tk 17.86 crore, reads the investigation report submitted before the commission.