The court has ordered the seizure of cricketer Shakib Al Hasan's assets in a case filed over a cheque fraud involving approximately Tk4.15 crore from IFIC Bank.
On Monday, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman issued this order.
On December 15, IFIC Bank's Public Relations Officer Sahibur Rahman filed this case in court against Shakib Al Hasan and three others. The other accused are Gazi Shahagir Hossain, managing director of Shakib Al Hasan Agro Farm; Imdadul Haque, director; and Malaika Begum. Shakib Al Hasan Agro Farm itself has also been named as an accused in the case.
On December 18, the court summoned the accused to appear. On that day, Imdadul Haque, director of Shakib Al Hasan Agro Farm, surrendered before the court and secured bail.
However, as Malaika Begum had passed away, a death report was requested.
Meanwhile, Shakib Al Hasan and Gazi Shahagir Hossain, the managing director of Agro Farm, did not appear in court. Consequently, the court issued arrest warrants against the two of them.
Currently, Imdadul Haque and Malaika Begum (posthumously) are on bail in this case.
According to the case statement, Shakib Al Hasan serves as the Chairman of Shakib Al Hasan Agro Farm Limited, which operates in Satkhira. In 2017, the company took a Tk1 crore working capital loan and a Tk1.5 crore term loan from IFIC Bank’s Banani branch.
However, as the company failed to repay the working capital loan on time, the bank converted it into a term loan.
Despite multiple notices from the bank demanding repayment, the company issued two checks amounting to Tk4.14 crore on September 4 of this year. However, due to insufficient funds in the relevant account, the checks bounced.
Later, IFIC Bank’s Banani branch sent a legal notice through a daily newspaper under the Negotiable Instruments Act, demanding repayment of the loan. However, as 30 days passed without repayment, the bank proceeded to file the case in court.
